scheduling job using cron.xml in google app engine

[abhishek grover]

Hi All,

Can anyone help me on how to schedule job using cron.xml.

My requirement is to schedule job every 2 min  from 09:00 to 10:00 in weekdays.

As per the google docs i have come up with below schedule format.

But this format will schedule job for weekend also.

So can anyone tell me how to add the weekday option in below format.

   <schedule>every 2 minutes from 09:00 to 10:00</schedule>

[Giuliano Ribeiro]

Hi, have you read more about this here:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/config/cronref#custom

I haven't found a example like you want and I guess it is not possible.

Take a look on the documentation page.

[Vitaly Bogomolov]

Hi.

You can't implement this task directly, according cron rules. But you can use some tricks with AppEngine abilities. For example.

Add cron rule, that will be called at  09:00 in weekdays

In the handler of this rule put 30 tasks to appengine taskqueue with appropriate delay. You can use one of the 'countdown' or 'eta' parameters .(https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/refdocs/google.appengine.api.taskqueue.taskqueue#google.appengine.api.taskqueue.taskqueue.add). 

You code may be something like this:

for i in range(30):

  taskqueue.add(

    url='/you_working_function_url',

    countdown=i*120  # delay in seconds

  ) 

WBR, Vitaly.

 

[Taxideals ch]

Thanks for your answers

Every day i check booking s(100 bookings) from cron jon, it gives 200 bookings

* have to run task queue 1 hour before, different booking in different time.

* How many ques have to create, thx 

[Sam (Google Cloud Support)]

Hi,

I am not sure I understand your question. Maybe you can clarify what you mean by "it gives 200 bookings."

This documentation address how to create and test cron jobs: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/config/cron#creating_a_cron_job