---
title: "Job"
description: "one run of a way in the acquisition system or the connector host"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/job
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Job

one run of a way in the acquisition system or the connector host

[figure: Job is a work at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | follows |
| key | the key the platform made from the ask |
| store | acquisition |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `asks` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `way` | [AccessMethod](/concepts/accessmethod) | yes |  |
| `host` | `text` | yes |  |
| `hops` | [HopStamp](/concepts/hopstamp) | yes |  |
| `failure` | [FailureClass](/concepts/failureclass) | no |  |
| `lease` | `id` | no |  |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/work/backfill`](/reference/work/backfill) returns it