Quartz job triggering from Config.groovy

Question

I have the following Quartz job running in my application:

class ScraperJob {
    def scraperService

    static triggers = {
        cron name: \'scraperTri         


        

Answer 1

I have no idea if this would actually work because i'm not sure when the quartz jobs get configured but in theory it would seem to work. You could probably see how you could also make this much more dynamic if you have more than one job.

Config.groovy

quartz.yourCronJobName="0 0 * * * ?"

BootStrap.groovy

import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.ConfigurationHolder as ConfigHolder
...
def cronExpression = ConfigHolder.config.yourCronJobName
ScraperJob.triggers.cronExpression = cronExpression 

Good luck. Let me know if it helps.

Answer 2

Here is how I eventually did it:

Config.groovy

scraperJob= "0 * * * * ?"

ScraperJob.groovy

import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.ConfigurationHolder as ConfigHolder

class ScraperJob {

  static triggers = {
        cron cronExpression: ConfigHolder.config.scraperJob // Calling the ScraperJob set in Config.groovy
    }
  def execute(){ ... }
}