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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import hou
+
+import pyblish.api
+from ayon_core.pipeline import PublishValidationError
+from ayon_core.pipeline.publish import RepairAction
+
+from ayon_houdini.api import plugin
+
+
+class ValidateWaitForRender(plugin.HoudiniInstancePlugin):
+    """Validate `WaitForRendertoComplete` is enabled.
+
+    Disabling `WaitForRendertoComplete` cause the local render to fail
+    as the publish execution continues while the render may not be finished yet.
+
+    """
+
+    order = pyblish.api.ValidatorOrder
+    families = ["usdrender"]
+    label = "Validate Wait For Render to Complete"
+    actions = [RepairAction]
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+
+        if not instance.data.get("instance_node"):
+            # Ignore instances without an instance node
+            # e.g. in memory bootstrap instances
+            self.log.debug(
+                f"Skipping instance without instance node: {instance}"
+            )
+            return
+        
+        if instance.data["creator_attributes"].get("render_target") != "local":
+            # This validator should work only with local render target.
+            self.log.debug(
+                "Skipping Validator, Render target is not 'Local machine rendering'"
+            )
+            return
+
+        invalid = self.get_invalid(instance)
+        if invalid:
+            rop = invalid[0]
+            raise PublishValidationError(
+                ("ROP node '{}' has 'Wait For Render to Complete' parm disabled."
+                 "Please, enable it.".format(rop.path())),
+                title=self.label
+            )
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_invalid(cls, instance):
+
+        rop = hou.node(instance.data["instance_node"])
+        if not rop.evalParm("soho_foreground"):
+            return [rop]
+        
+    @classmethod
+    def repair(cls, instance):
+        """Enable WaitForRendertoComplete. """
+
+        rop = hou.node(instance.data["instance_node"])
+        rop.parm("soho_foreground").set(True)
+