github.com/robfig/cron/v3
Package cron implements a cron spec parser and job runner. To download the specific tagged release, run: Import it in your program as: It requires Go 1.11 or later due to usage of Go Modules. Callers may register Funcs to be invoked on a given schedule. Cron will run them in their own goroutines. A cron expression represents a set of times, using 5 space-separated fields. Month and Day-of-week field values are case insensitive. "SUN", "Sun", and "sun" are equally accepted. The specific interpretation of the format is based on the Cron Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Alternative Cron expression formats support other fields like seconds. You can implement that by creating a custom Parser as follows. Since adding Seconds is the most common modification to the standard cron spec, cron provides a builtin function to do that, which is equivalent to the custom parser you saw earlier, except that its seconds field is REQUIRED: That emulates Quartz, the most popular alternative Cron schedule format: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorials/crontrigger.html 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. You may use one of several pre-defined schedules in place of a cron expression. 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: 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 after 1 hour, 30 minutes, 10 seconds, and then every interval after that. 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. By default, all interpretation and scheduling is done in the machine's local time zone (time.Local). You can specify a different time zone on construction: Individual cron schedules may also override the time zone they are to be interpreted in by providing an additional space-separated field at the beginning of the cron spec, of the form "CRON_TZ=Asia/Tokyo". For example: The prefix "TZ=(TIME ZONE)" is also supported for legacy compatibility. Be aware that jobs scheduled during daylight-savings leap-ahead transitions will not be run! A Cron runner may be configured with a chain of job wrappers to add cross-cutting functionality to all submitted jobs. For example, they may be used to achieve the following effects: Install wrappers for all jobs added to a cron using the `cron.WithChain` option: Install wrappers for individual jobs by explicitly wrapping them: 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. Cron defines a Logger interface that is a subset of the one defined in github.com/go-logr/logr. It has two logging levels (Info and Error), and parameters are key/value pairs. This makes it possible for cron logging to plug into structured logging systems. An adapter, [Verbose]PrintfLogger, is provided to wrap the standard library *log.Logger. For additional insight into Cron operations, verbose logging may be activated which will record job runs, scheduling decisions, and added or removed jobs. Activate it with a one-off logger as follows: 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:
Readme
Cron V3 has been released!
To download the specific tagged release, run:
go get github.com/robfig/cron/v3@v3.0.0
Import it in your program as:
import "github.com/robfig/cron/v3"
It requires Go 1.11 or later due to usage of Go Modules.
Refer to the documentation here: http://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron
The rest of this document describes the the advances in v3 and a list of breaking changes for users that wish to upgrade from an earlier version.
cron v3 is a major upgrade to the library that addresses all outstanding bugs, feature requests, and rough edges. It is based on a merge of master which contains various fixes to issues found over the years and the v2 branch which contains some backwards-incompatible features like the ability to remove cron jobs. In addition, v3 adds support for Go Modules, cleans up rough edges like the timezone support, and fixes a number of bugs.
New features:
Support for Go modules. Callers must now import this library as
github.com/robfig/cron/v3, instead of gopkg.in/...
Fixed bugs:
Standard cron spec parsing by default (first field is "minute"), with an easy way to opt into the seconds field (quartz-compatible). Although, note that the year field (optional in Quartz) is not supported.
Extensible, key/value logging via an interface that complies with the https://github.com/go-logr/logr project.
The new Chain & JobWrapper types allow you to install "interceptors" to add cross-cutting behavior like the following:
It is backwards incompatible with both v1 and v2. These updates are required:
The v1 branch accepted an optional seconds field at the beginning of the cron spec. This is non-standard and has led to a lot of confusion. The new default parser conforms to the standard as described by the Cron wikipedia page.
UPDATING: To retain the old behavior, construct your Cron with a custom parser:
// Seconds field, required
cron.New(cron.WithSeconds())
// Seconds field, optional
cron.New(
cron.WithParser(
cron.SecondOptional | cron.Minute | cron.Hour | cron.Dom | cron.Month | cron.Dow | cron.Descriptor))
The Cron type now accepts functional options on construction rather than the previous ad-hoc behavior modification mechanisms (setting a field, calling a setter).
UPDATING: Code that sets Cron.ErrorLogger or calls Cron.SetLocation must be updated to provide those values on construction.
CRON_TZ is now the recommended way to specify the timezone of a single schedule, which is sanctioned by the specification. The legacy "TZ=" prefix will continue to be supported since it is unambiguous and easy to do so.
UPDATING: No update is required.
By default, cron will no longer recover panics in jobs that it runs.
Recovering can be surprising (see issue #192) and seems to be at odds with
typical behavior of libraries. Relatedly, the cron.WithPanicLogger option
has been removed to accommodate the more general JobWrapper type.
UPDATING: To opt into panic recovery and configure the panic logger:
cron.New(cron.WithChain(
cron.Recover(logger), // or use cron.DefaultLogger
))
In adding support for https://github.com/go-logr/logr, cron.WithVerboseLogger was
removed, since it is duplicative with the leveled logging.
UPDATING: Callers should use WithLogger and specify a logger that does not
discard Info logs. For convenience, one is provided that wraps *log.Logger:
cron.New(
cron.WithLogger(cron.VerbosePrintfLogger(logger)))
There are two cron spec formats in common usage:
The "standard" cron format, described on the Cron wikipedia page and used by the cron Linux system utility.
The cron format used by the Quartz Scheduler, commonly used for scheduled jobs in Java software
The original version of this package included an optional "seconds" field, which made it incompatible with both of these formats. Now, the "standard" format is the default format accepted, and the Quartz format is opt-in.
FAQs
Package cron implements a cron spec parser and job runner. To download the specific tagged release, run: Import it in your program as: It requires Go 1.11 or later due to usage of Go Modules. Callers may register Funcs to be invoked on a given schedule. Cron will run them in their own goroutines. A cron expression represents a set of times, using 5 space-separated fields. Month and Day-of-week field values are case insensitive. "SUN", "Sun", and "sun" are equally accepted. The specific interpretation of the format is based on the Cron Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Alternative Cron expression formats support other fields like seconds. You can implement that by creating a custom Parser as follows. Since adding Seconds is the most common modification to the standard cron spec, cron provides a builtin function to do that, which is equivalent to the custom parser you saw earlier, except that its seconds field is REQUIRED: That emulates Quartz, the most popular alternative Cron schedule format: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorials/crontrigger.html 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. You may use one of several pre-defined schedules in place of a cron expression. 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: 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 after 1 hour, 30 minutes, 10 seconds, and then every interval after that. 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. By default, all interpretation and scheduling is done in the machine's local time zone (time.Local). You can specify a different time zone on construction: Individual cron schedules may also override the time zone they are to be interpreted in by providing an additional space-separated field at the beginning of the cron spec, of the form "CRON_TZ=Asia/Tokyo". For example: The prefix "TZ=(TIME ZONE)" is also supported for legacy compatibility. Be aware that jobs scheduled during daylight-savings leap-ahead transitions will not be run! A Cron runner may be configured with a chain of job wrappers to add cross-cutting functionality to all submitted jobs. For example, they may be used to achieve the following effects: Install wrappers for all jobs added to a cron using the `cron.WithChain` option: Install wrappers for individual jobs by explicitly wrapping them: 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. Cron defines a Logger interface that is a subset of the one defined in github.com/go-logr/logr. It has two logging levels (Info and Error), and parameters are key/value pairs. This makes it possible for cron logging to plug into structured logging systems. An adapter, [Verbose]PrintfLogger, is provided to wrap the standard library *log.Logger. For additional insight into Cron operations, verbose logging may be activated which will record job runs, scheduling decisions, and added or removed jobs. Activate it with a one-off logger as follows: 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:
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