Continuous WebJob with timer trigger

Question

I have written following functions in continuous web job :

public static void fun1([TimerTrigger(\"24:00:00\", RunOnStartup = true, UseMonitor = true)] Timer         


        

Answer 1

You should have a look at the documentation of the TimerTriggerAttribute:

• The first parameter you specified is the schedule expression: This can either be a 6 field crontab expression or a System.TimeSpan.

A Cron expression can be represented like that:

*    *    *    *    *    *  command to be executed
┬    ┬    ┬    ┬    ┬    ┬
│    │    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    │    └───── day of week (0 - 7) (0 or 7 are Sunday, or    use names)
│    │    │    │    └────────── month (1 - 12)
│    │    │    └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│    |    └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)
│    └───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)
└────────────────────────────── second(0 - 59)

In you case, the expression is a string represening a TimeSpan :

• "24:00:00" : this job is running every 24 hours, RunOnStartup : this means the job will run when the webjob starts or restarts even if the last run occured in the last 24 hours.

• "00:01:00" : this job is running every minute, RunOnStartup : this means the job will run when the webjob starts or restarts even if the last run occured in the last minute.

EDIT

From this answer:

• TimerTrigger - TimeSpan "24:00:00" - The next 5 occurrences as being 24 days apart

This is due to the way TimeSpan.Parse works. If you pass it "24:00:00" strangely enough it will give you back a TimeSpan of duration 24 days. Not sure if this is their intended behavior or a bug on their side, but we simply pass the expression down to them and inherit their behavior. Anyhow, for your purposes, to get 24 hours you can use "1.00:00" (specifying 1 day).