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Erlang Cron implementation

Supports all standard cron fields (minutes, hours, day of month, month, day of week) and symbols: * , - /

Tested on Erlang/OTP 18, Erlang/OTP 19, Erlang/OTP 20; rebar / rebar3.

Compile

$ rebar compile

EUnit tests

$ rebar eunit

Run

$ erl -pa ebin/

Examples

1 Add cron job (anonymous function).

application:start(erl_cron).
erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", fun () -> io:format("job completed!~n", []) end}).

2 Add cron job (MFA).

application:start(erl_cron).
erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", {m, f, [1, 2, 3]}}).

3 Add named cron job (anonymous function). Name can be any term.

application:start(erl_cron).
erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", fun () -> io:format("job completed!~n", []) end, <<"JobName">>}).

4 Add named cron job (MFA). Name can be any term.

application:start(erl_cron).
erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", {m, f, [1, 2, 3]}, jobname}).

5 Delete cron job by reference.

application:start(erl_cron).
{ok, Ref} = erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", {m, f, [1, 2, 3]}}).
erl_cron_server:delete_by_ref(Ref).

6 Delete cron job by name.

application:start(erl_cron).
erl_cron_server:add_job({"*/2 * * * *", {m, f, [1, 2, 3]}, "jobname"}).
erl_cron_server:delete_by_name("jobname").

7 Delete all cron jobs.

erl_cron_server:delete_all().

8 Get scheduled jobs.

erl_cron_server:get_jobs().

9 Get only next run date by Cron expression.

erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("* 2 * 4 *").
erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("* 14 * * *").
erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("*/2 * * * *").
erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("10-20 7,10-20 3 2 2-4").
erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("6,9-20/2 7,10-20 3 2 2-4").
erl_cron_time:get_next_run_date("6,9-20/2 7,8,10-20 */3 2,3 2-4").