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Overview ¶
Package cron implements a cron spec parser and job runner.
Usage ¶
Callers may register Funcs to be invoked on a given schedule. Cron will run them in their own goroutines.
c := cron.New()
c.AddFunc("task1", "0 30 * * * *", func() { fmt.Println("Every hour on the half hour") })
c.AddFunc("task2", "@hourly", func() { fmt.Println("Every hour") })
c.AddFunc("task3", "@every 1h30m", func() { fmt.Println("Every hour thirty") })
c.Start()
..
// Funcs are invoked in their own goroutine, asynchronously.
...
// Funcs may also be added to a running Cron
c.AddFunc("task4", "@daily", func() { fmt.Println("Every day") })
// Job of Func may also be removed from a running Cron
c.Remove("task1")
..
// Inspect the cron job entries' next and previous run times.
inspect(c.Entries())
..
c.Stop() // Stop the scheduler (does not stop any jobs already running).
CRON Expression Format ¶
A cron expression represents a set of times, using 6 space-separated fields.
Field name | Mandatory? | Allowed values | Allowed special characters ---------- | ---------- | -------------- | -------------------------- Seconds | Yes | 0-59 | * / , - Minutes | Yes | 0-59 | * / , - Hours | Yes | 0-23 | * / , - Day of month | Yes | 1-31 | * / , - ? Month | Yes | 1-12 or JAN-DEC | * / , - Day of week | Yes | 0-6 or SUN-SAT | * / , - ?
Note: Month and Day-of-week field values are case insensitive. "SUN", "Sun", and "sun" are equally accepted.
Special Characters ¶
Asterisk ( * )
The asterisk indicates that the cron expression will match for all values of the field; e.g., using an asterisk in the 5th field (month) would indicate every month.
Slash ( / )
Slashes are used to describe increments of ranges. For example 3-59/15 in the 1st field (minutes) would indicate the 3rd minute of the hour and every 15 minutes thereafter. The form "*\/..." is equivalent to the form "first-last/...", that is, an increment over the largest possible range of the field. The form "N/..." is accepted as meaning "N-MAX/...", that is, starting at N, use the increment until the end of that specific range. It does not wrap around.
Comma ( , )
Commas are used to separate items of a list. For example, using "MON,WED,FRI" in the 5th field (day of week) would mean Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Hyphen ( - )
Hyphens are used to define ranges. For example, 9-17 would indicate every hour between 9am and 5pm inclusive.
Question mark ( ? )
Question mark may be used instead of '*' for leaving either day-of-month or day-of-week blank.
Predefined schedules ¶
You may use one of several pre-defined schedules in place of a cron expression.
Entry | Description | Equivalent To ----- | ----------- | ------------- @yearly (or @annually) | Run once a year, midnight, Jan. 1st | 0 0 0 1 1 * @monthly | Run once a month, midnight, first of month | 0 0 0 1 * * @weekly | Run once a week, midnight on Sunday | 0 0 0 * * 0 @daily (or @midnight) | Run once a day, midnight | 0 0 0 * * * @hourly | Run once an hour, beginning of hour | 0 0 * * * *
Intervals ¶
You may also schedule a job to execute at fixed intervals, starting at the time it's added or cron is run. This is supported by formatting the cron spec like this:
@every <duration>
where "duration" is a string accepted by time.ParseDuration (http://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration).
For example, "@every 1h30m10s" would indicate a schedule that activates immediately, and then every 1 hour, 30 minutes, 10 seconds.
Note: The interval does not take the job runtime into account. For example, if a job takes 3 minutes to run, and it is scheduled to run every 5 minutes, it will have only 2 minutes of idle time between each run.
Time zones ¶
All interpretation and scheduling is done in the machine's local time zone (as provided by the Go time package (http://www.golang.org/pkg/time).
Be aware that jobs scheduled during daylight-savings leap-ahead transitions will not be run!
Thread safety ¶
Since the Cron service runs concurrently with the calling code, some amount of care must be taken to ensure proper synchronization.
All cron methods are designed to be correctly synchronized as long as the caller ensures that invocations have a clear happens-before ordering between them.
Implementation ¶
Cron entries are stored in an array, sorted by their next activation time. Cron sleeps until the next job is due to be run.
Upon waking:
- it runs each entry that is active on that second
- it calculates the next run times for the jobs that were run
- it re-sorts the array of entries by next activation time.
- it goes to sleep until the soonest job.
Index ¶
- type ConstantDelaySchedule
- type Cron
- func (c *Cron) AddFunc(name, spec string, cmd func()) error
- func (c *Cron) AddJob(name, spec string, cmd Job) error
- func (c *Cron) Entries() []*Entry
- func (c *Cron) Location() *time.Location
- func (c *Cron) Remove(name string)
- func (c *Cron) Run()
- func (c *Cron) Schedule(name string, schedule Schedule, cmd Job)
- func (c *Cron) Start()
- func (c *Cron) Stop()
- type Entry
- type FuncJob
- type Job
- type ParseOption
- type Parser
- type Schedule
- type SpecSchedule
Constants ¶
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Variables ¶
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Functions ¶
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Types ¶
type ConstantDelaySchedule ¶
func Every ¶
func Every(duration time.Duration) ConstantDelaySchedule
type Cron ¶
func NewWithLocation ¶
type ParseOption ¶
type ParseOption int
const ( Second ParseOption = 1 << iota // Seconds field, default 0 Minute // Minutes field, default 0 Hour // Hours field, default 0 Dom // Day of month field, default * Month // Month field, default * Dow // Day of week field, default * DowOptional // Optional day of week field, default * Descriptor // Allow descriptors such as @monthly, @weekly, etc. )
type Parser ¶
type Parser struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
func NewParser ¶
func NewParser(options ParseOption) Parser
type Schedule ¶
func ParseStandard ¶
type SpecSchedule ¶
type SpecSchedule struct {
Second, Minute, Hour, Dom, Month, Dow uint64
}
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