This can be useful when wanting a schedule to begin at the end of an interval instead of the beginning, or for scheduling around holidays when a process is still required to run on the holiday, but not the day after the holiday.
The after schedule differs from the schedules:day-after in that day-after is designed to narrow it's parent interval but this schedule applies a refinement to it child schedule. The difference is subtle but hopefully the examples demonstrate how each should be used.
refinement | Provide a refinement to this schedule. |
schedule | The schedule to be after. |
Example 1 | A schedule for the end of the interval. |
Example 2 | A schedule for the day after a the current business day. |
Configured By | ELEMENT |
Access | READ_WRITE |
Required | No. |
Provide a refinement to this schedule.
Configured By | ELEMENT |
Access | READ_WRITE |
Required | Yes. |
The schedule to be after.
A schedule for the end of the interval.
<schedules:count count="1" xmlns:schedules="http://rgordon.co.uk/oddjob/schedules"> <refinement> <schedules:after> <schedule> <schedules:interval interval="00:20"/> </schedule> </schedules:after> </refinement> </schedules:count>This would schedule a job to run once after 20 minutes. It could be used to stop a long running job for instance.
A schedule for the day after a the current business day.
<schedules:after xmlns:schedules="http://rgordon.co.uk/oddjob/schedules"> <schedule> <schedules:broken> <schedule> <schedules:weekly from="MONDAY" to="FRIDAY"> <refinement> <schedules:daily/> </refinement> </schedules:weekly> </schedule> <breaks> <schedules:date on="2011-05-02"/> </breaks> </schedules:broken> </schedule> <refinement> <schedules:time from="08:00"/> </refinement> </schedules:after>Normally this will schedule something from 08:00 am Tuesday to Saturday, but for the week where Monday 2nd of May was a public holiday the schedule will be from Wednesday to Saturday.