franknozly/dropwizard-sundial

Scheduled jobs in dropwizard

dropwizard-sundial

Scheduled jobs in Dropwizard using Sundial, a quartz fork.

In a Nutshell

Sundial makes adding scheduled jobs to your Java application a walk in the park. Simply define jobs, define triggers, and start the Sundial scheduler. dropwizard-sundial makes integrating and configuring the job scheduler into dropwizard a snap.

Adding the dropwizard-sundial dependency

Add the dropwizard-sundial library as a dependency to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.xeiam</groupId>
    <artifactId>dropwizard-sundial</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Adding and configuring the dropwizard-sundial bundle

Add the Sundial bundle to the Dropwizard environment:

public void initialize(Bootstrap<MyApplicationConfiguration> bootstrap) {

  bootstrap.addBundle(new SundialBundle<MyApplicationConfiguration>() {

    @Override
    public SundialConfiguration getSundialConfiguration(MyApplicationConfiguration configuration) {
      return configuration.getSundialConfiguration();
    }
  });
}

Add the 'SundialConfiguration' to your application configuration class (MyApplicationConfiguration):

@Valid
@NotNull
public SundialConfiguration sundialConfiguration = new SundialConfiguration();

@JsonProperty("sundial")
public SundialConfiguration getSundialConfiguration() {

  return sundialConfiguration;
}

Edit you app's Dropwizard YAML config file (default values are shown below except for annotated-jobs-package-name):

sundial:
  thread-pool-size: 10
  shutdown-on-unload: true
  wait-on-shutdown: false
  start-delay-seconds: 0
  start-scheduler-on-load: true
  global-lock-on-load: false
  annotated-jobs-package-name: com.foo.bar.jobs

Configure package name for Job classes containing CronTrigger and SimpleTrigger annotations:

sundial:
  annotated-jobs-package-name: com.foo.bar.jobs

Create a Job Class

public class SampleJob extends com.xeiam.sundial.Job {

  @Override
  public void doRun() throws JobInterruptException {
    // Do something interesting...
  }
}

...with CronTrigger or SimpleTrigger Annotation

@CronTrigger(cron = "0/5 * * * * ?")

@SimpleTrigger(repeatInterval = 30, timeUnit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)

Alternatively, Put an XML File Called jobs.xml on Classpath

If adding jobs and triggers this way, you should not use annotations.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<job-scheduling-data>

	<schedule>

		<!-- job with cron trigger -->
		<job>
			<name>SampleJob3</name>
			<job-class>com.foo.bar.jobs.SampleJob3</job-class>
			<concurrency-allowed>true</concurrency-allowed>
		</job>
		<trigger>
			<cron>
				<name>SampleJob3-Trigger</name>
				<job-name>SampleJob3</job-name>
				<cron-expression>*/15 * * * * ?</cron-expression>
			</cron>
		</trigger>

		<!-- job with simple trigger -->
		<job>
			<name>SampleJob2</name>
			<job-class>com.foo.bar.jobs.SampleJob2</job-class>
			<job-data-map>
				<entry>
					<key>MyParam</key>
					<value>42</value>
				</entry>
			</job-data-map>
		</job>
		<trigger>
			<simple>
				<name>SampleJob2-Trigger</name>
				<job-name>SampleJob2</job-name>
				<repeat-count>5</repeat-count>
				<repeat-interval>5000</repeat-interval>
			</simple>
		</trigger>

	</schedule>

</job-scheduling-data>

Inject Global Objects or Config Parameters into a Job

You may want access to a global object such as a REST client, and you don't want to have to reinstantiate that object every single time the job is run. It can be done quite easily by putting the object in the ServletContext during app startup in the run method. Since Sundial is bound to the ServletContext's lifecycle, it has direct access to the ServletContext. The ServletContext has a String, Object map for holding these global objects. The following code snippets show how to add an object to the ServletContext in the dropwizard run method and how to access it from a job.

@Override
public void run(XDropWizardApplicationConfiguration configuration, Environment environment) throws Exception {

  logger.info("running DropWizard!");

  // Add object to ServletContext for accessing from Sundial Jobs
  environment.getApplicationContext().setAttribute("MyKey", "MyObject");
    
  ...
}

@CronTrigger(cron = "0/25 * * * * ?")
public class MyJob extends Job {

  private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyJob.class);

  @Override
  public void doRun() throws JobInterruptException {

    // pull object from ServletContext, which was added in the apllication's run method
    String myObject = (String) SundialJobScheduler.getServletContext().getAttribute("MyKey");

    logger.info("MyJob says: " + myObject);
  }
}

Control Scheduler asynchronously via Curl

curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/locksundialscheduler
curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/unlocksundialscheduler
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/startjob?JOB_NAME=MyJob"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/startjob?JOB_NAME=SampleJob3&MyParam=9999"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/stopjob?JOB_NAME=SampleJob3"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/removejob?JOB_NAME=SampleJob3"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/addjob?JOB_NAME=SampleJob3&JOB_CLASS=com.xeiam.xdropwizard.jobs.SampleJob3&MyParam=888"
curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/removejobtrigger?TRIGGER_NAME=SampleJob3-Trigger
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/addcronjobtrigger?TRIGGER_NAME=SampleJob3-Trigger&JOB_NAME=SampleJob3&CRON_EXPRESSION=0/45%20*%20*%20*%20*%20?"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:9090/admin/tasks/addcronjobtrigger?TRIGGER_NAME=SampleJob3-Trigger&JOB_NAME=SampleJob3" --data-urlencode "CRON_EXPRESSION=0/45 * * * * ?"

Learn

Visit Sundial to find out more about the scheduler itself and XDropWizard to see a working example of a DropWizard app integrating Sundial via the dropwizard-sundial project.

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