cron

Cron trigger

This trigger provides your flogo application the ability to start a flow via a timer configured by a cron expression.

It uses the library https://github.com/robfig/cron

Installation

Flogo Web

Start

Start a container of Flogo Web UI :

docker run --name flogo -it -d -p 3303:3303 -e FLOGO_NO_ENGINE_RECREATION=false flogo/flogo-docker eula-accept

The environment variable FLOGO_NO_ENGINE_RECREATION=false allows to force import of installed contributions.

Installation of the activity

To install the activity into the started container :

docker exec -it flogo sh -c 'cd /tmp/flogo-web/build/server/local/engines/flogo-web && flogo install github.com/square-it/flogo-contrib-triggers/cron'

Restart the container

docker restart flogo

Flogo CLI

flogo install github.com/square-it/flogo-contrib-triggers/cron

Schema

Inputs and Outputs:

{
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "expression",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Settings

Setting	Required	Description
expression	True	The cron expression.

Cron Expression

A cron expression represents a set of times, using 6 space-separated fields.

Field name	Mandatory?	Allowed values	Allowed special characters
Seconds	Yes	0-59	* / , -
Minutes	Yes	0-59	* / , -
Hours	Yes	0-23	* / , -
Day of month	Yes	1-31	* / , - ?
Month	Yes	1-12 or JAN-DEC	* / , -
Day of week	Yes	0-6 or SUN-SAT	* / , - ?

See the full documentation : https://godoc.org/github.com/robfig/cron

Example

{
      "id": "cron",
      "ref": "github.com/square-it/flogo-contrib-triggers/cron",
      "name": "Cron",
      "description": "Timer trigger with cron abilities",
      "settings": {
        "expression": "0/10 * * * * *"
      }
}