Description
Library for using Crontab-like syntax in scheduling of some Kotlin Coroutines tasks to do from time to time
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README
krontab
Library was created to give oppotunity to launch some things from time to time according to some schedule in runtime of applications.
How to use
There are several ways to configure and use this library:
- From some string
- From builder
Anyway, to start some action from time to time you will need to use one of extensions/functions:
val kronScheduler = /* creating of KronScheduler instance */;
kronScheuler.doWhile {
// some action
true // true - repeat on next time
}
Including in project
If you want to include krontab
in your project, just add next line to your
dependencies part:
implementation "dev.inmo:krontab:$krontab_version"
Next version is the latest currently for the library:
For old version of Gradle, instead of implementation
word developers must use compile
.
Config from string
Developers can use more simple way to configure repeat times is string. String configuring
like a crontab
, but with a little bit different meanings:
/--------------- Seconds
| /------------- Minutes
| | /----------- Hours
| | | /--------- Days of months
| | | | /------- Months
| | | | | /----- (optional) Year
| | | | | | /--- (optional) Timezone offset
| | | | | | | / (optional) Week days
* * * * * * 0o *w
It is different with original crontab
syntax for the reason, that expected that in practice developers
will use seconds and minutes with more probability than months (for example) or even years. In fact, developers will use
something like:
doWhile("/5 * * * *") {
println("Called")
true // true - repeat on next time
}
An other version:
doInfinity("/5 * * * *") {
println("Called")
}
Both of examples will print Called
message every five seconds.
Config via builder
Also, this library currently supports DSL for creating the same goals:
val kronScheduler = buildSchedule {
seconds {
from (0) every 5
}
}
kronScheduler.doWhile {
println("Called")
true // true - repeat on next time
}
Or
val kronScheduler = buildSchedule {
seconds {
0 every 5
}
}
kronScheduler.doWhile {
println("Called")
true // true - repeat on next time
}
Or
val kronScheduler = buildSchedule {
seconds {
0 every 5
}
}
kronScheduler.doInfinity {
println("Called")
}
All of these examples will do the same things: print Called
message every five seconds.
do* functions
With regular doOnce
/doWhile
/doInfinity
there are two types of their variations: local and timezoned. Local
variations (doOnceLocal
/doWhileLocal
/doInfinityLocal
) will pass DateTime
as an argument into the block:
doInfinityLocal("/5 * * * *") {
println(it) // will print current date time
}
Timezoned variations (doOnceTz
/doWhileTz
/doInfinityTz
) will do the same thing but pass as an argument DateTimeTz
:
doInfinityTz("/5 * * * * 0o") {
println(it) // will print current date time in UTC
}
It is useful in cases when you need to get the time of calling and avoid extra calls to system time.
Helpful table for
No args | Local DateTime |
Local DateTimeTz with offset of KronScheduler |
|
---|---|---|---|
Call only near time | doOnce | doOnceLocal | doOnceTz |
Call while condition is true | doWhile | doWhileLocal | doWhileTz |
Work infinity* | doInfinity | doInfinityLocal | doInfinityTz |
*Here there is an important notice, that Work infinity
is not exactly infinity
. Actually, that means that do while
coroutine is alive
and in fact executing will be stopped when coroutine became cancelled.
KronScheduler as a Flow
Any KronScheduler
can e converted to a Flow<DateTime
using extension asFlow
:
val kronScheduler = buildSchedule {
seconds {
0 every 1
}
}
val flow = kronScheduler.asFlow()
So, in this case any operations related to flow are available and it is expected that they will work correctly. For
example, it is possible to use this flow with takeWhile
:
flow.takeWhile {
condition()
}.collect {
action()
}
Offsets
Offsets in this library works via passing parameter ending with o
in any place after month
config. Currently
there is only one format supported for offsets: minutes of offsets. To use time zones you will need to call next
method with DateTimeTz
argument or nextTimeZoned
method with any KronScheduler
instance, but in case if this
scheduler is not instance of KronSchedulerTz
it will work like you passed just DateTime
.
Besides, in case you wish to use time zones explicitly, you will need to get KronSchedulerTz
. It is possible by:
- Using
createSimpleScheduler
/buildSchedule
/KrontabTemplate#toSchedule
/KrontabTemplate#toKronScheduler
methods with passingdefaultOffset
parameter - Using
SchedulerBuilder#build
/createSimpleScheduler
/buildSchedule
/KrontabTemplate#toSchedule
/KrontabTemplate#toKronScheduler
methods with casting toKronSchedulerTz
in case you are pretty sure that it is timezonedKronScheduler
- Creating your own implementation of
KronSchedulerTz
Note about week days
Unlike original CRON, here week days:
- Works as
AND
: cron date time will search first day which will pass requirement according all parameters including week days - You may use any related to numbers syntax with week days:
0-3w
,0,1,2,3w
, etc. - Week days (like years and offsets) are optional and can be placed anywhere after
month