Scheduling a job with Spring programmatically (with fixedRate set dynamically)

java, scheduled-tasks, spring, spring-annotations, spring-scheduled

Solution

Using a `Trigger` you can calculate the next execution time on the fly.

Something like this should do the trick (adapted from the Javadoc for `@EnableScheduling`):

@Configuration
@EnableScheduling
public class MyAppConfig implements SchedulingConfigurer {

    @Autowired
    Environment env;

    @Bean
    public MyBean myBean() {
        return new MyBean();
    }

    @Bean(destroyMethod = "shutdown")
    public Executor taskExecutor() {
        return Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(100);
    }

    @Override
    public void configureTasks(ScheduledTaskRegistrar taskRegistrar) {
        taskRegistrar.setScheduler(taskExecutor());
        taskRegistrar.addTriggerTask(
                new Runnable() {
                    @Override public void run() {
                        myBean().getSchedule();
                    }
                },
                new Trigger() {
                    @Override public Date nextExecutionTime(TriggerContext triggerContext) {
                        Calendar nextExecutionTime =  new GregorianCalendar();
                        Date lastActualExecutionTime = triggerContext.lastActualExecutionTime();
                        nextExecutionTime.setTime(lastActualExecutionTime != null ? lastActualExecutionTime : new Date());
                        nextExecutionTime.add(Calendar.MILLISECOND, env.getProperty("myRate", Integer.class)); //you can get the value from wherever you want
                        return nextExecutionTime.getTime();
                    }
                }
        );
    }
}

Problem

Currently I have this : ``` @Scheduled(fixedRate=5000) public void getSchedule(){ System.out.println("in scheduled job"); } ``` I could change this to use a reference to a property ``` @Scheduled(fixedRateString="${myRate}") public void getSchedule(){ System.out.println("in scheduled job"); } ``` However I need to use a value obtained programmatically so the schedule can be changed without redeploying the app. What is the best way? I realize using annotations may not be possible...

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