Using Cron Jobs in GoFr

This example demonstrates how to schedule and run background jobs using the GoFr framework’s built-in Cron Job support.

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Overview

In this example, we:

• Schedule a job named counter to run every second.
• Increment a counter on each execution and log its value.
• Run the application for a limited duration (3 seconds) to demonstrate the cron execution in action.
• Include a unit test to verify that the cron job executes successfully.

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How to Run

1. Clone the repository and navigate to this example:

   git clone https://github.com/gofr-dev/gofr.git
   cd gofr/examples/using-cron-jobs
   

2. Run the application:

   go run main.go
   

   • The counter will increment every second.
   • Application will stop automatically after 3 seconds. (In a real-world application, you would call app.Run() to keep the cron running indefinitely.)

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How It Works

main.go

app.AddCronJob("* * * * * *", "counter", count)

• Schedules the count function to run every second.
• Cron syntax here uses six fields (including seconds) — "* * * * * *" means “every second.”

time.Sleep(duration * time.Second)

• Stops the application after the duration (3 seconds) for demonstration purposes.

count Function

• Acquires a write lock.
• Increments the counter variable n.
• Logs the current counter value.

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Testing

The test (main_test.go):

• Runs the main() function.
• Waits slightly longer than 1 second.
• Checks if the counter has incremented exactly once.
• Logs the metrics server host.

Run the test:

go test -v

Expected output:

=== RUN   Test_UserPurgeCron
--- PASS: Test_UserPurgeCron (1.10s)
PASS

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Example Output

When running main.go, you should see:

INFO    Count: 1
INFO    Count: 2
INFO    Count: 3