Schedule tasks based on user input

[R Stewart]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with task scheduling in Spring?
I understand you can schedule for a fixed time period or interval using annotations
https://spring.io/guides/gs/scheduling-tasks/
But I was wondering if anyone knows how to do this using dynamic user input at runtime.
For example a user schedules an email to be sent at 5:02pm exactly, is there a way add a new task dynamically using that as a time?

Thanks.

PS. I've been using this forum without an account for a while, and its a great resource, thanks to everyone who contributes!

[R Stewart]

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[R Stewart]

Answered my own Question:

I created a bean as follows:

@Bean
    public TaskScheduler taskScheduler() {
        ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler = new ThreadPoolTaskScheduler();
        scheduler.initialize();
        return scheduler;
    }

Then Added the following wherever needed:

  taskScheduler().schedule(() -> {
         //doStuff
        }, new CronTrigger(userInput));

Hope this might be useful to others!

[Paul Clapham]

Definitely could be useful to others! I gave you a cow for posting the result of your research.