Problem: Job redo Option
This is a follow up for #240
Jobs should have the option to configure how to handle a downtime of the scheduler.
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transientjobs that do not need redo-ing even if their execution was skipped -
permanentjobs that would like to get executed once after the period of scheduler being down (no matter how many cycles they have missed). Like backup jobs. -
permanent_consecutive- (a better name is more than appreciated) that need to be redone exact the number of times they were not executed. I can imagine like jobs incrementing some counters. I believe I would be able to come up with a real-world scenario, but I need some thinking to come up with it.
Any mileage in an option that gives the permanent_consecutive scheduled jobs the information to determine itself what to do?
For example say I have a job scheduled every hour which has the purpose of sending reminder notifcations. If I missed a number of runs I might want to only send reminders for events that have not yet happened.
I think for that usecase I'd want to be able to pass the job arguments for both:
- The time the scheduler would have run the job at
- The time the scheduler is running the job at
@jonathanhickford I'll consider that when implementing it. I'm already working on v3 where this should be included. Since I'm doing that in my free time it'll take some time though.