# Operations

Operation objects detail the status of an asynchronous operation that is taking place in the background. Some operations (e.g. image related actions) can take a long time and so the operation is performed in the background. They return an operation id that may be used to discover the state of the operation.

## Manager methods

Operations can be queried through the following client manager methods:

> - get() - Get a specific operation, by its id.

> - wait_for_operation() - get an operation, but wait until it is complete before returning the operation object.

## Operation object methods

> - wait() - Wait for the operation to complete and return. Note that this can raise a LXDAPIExceptiion if the operations fails.