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  • v3.2.0 Changes

    January 17, 2020

    ⏱ Introduces scheduling an invocable with extra parameters.

    ⏱ See https://docs.coravel.net/Scheduler/#scheduling-tasks

  • v2.3.0 Changes

    December 16, 2018

    🚀 This release adds "sub-minute" task scheduling intervals:

    • EverySecond
    • EveryFiveSeconds
    • EveryTenSeconds
    • EveryFifteenSeconds
    • EveryThirtySeconds

  • v2.2.0 Changes

    November 16, 2018

    ⏱ Schedule Workers

    ⏱ See docs for new features info.

  • v2.1.0 Changes

    November 01, 2018

    Broadcast Events In Background Queue

    Event broadcasting is great - but what if your event listeners are doing some heavy / long-winded tasks?

    📱 Using QueueBroadcast you can queue an event to be broadcasted in the background so your app can continue to be responsive.

    // This will broadcast the event whenever the queue is consummed in the background.this.\_queue.QueueBroadcast(new OrderCreated(orderId));

  • v2.0.0 Changes

    October 03, 2018

    Major change:

    • Coravel is .NET Standard compatible! Due to changes in dependencies etc. over the past weeks, Coravel is in a state where porting/migrating to .NET Standard makes sense.

    🍱 The functionality is the same, yet allows using Coravel in shared libraries, "business layers", etc. E.g. Any .NET Standard 2.0 + lib 😉

  • v1.9 Changes

    September 18, 2018

    ✂ Removed dependency on Microsoft.AspNetCore.App to use the respective "Abstraction" packages.
    💥 Breaking changes to how Coravel features are configured within the Configure method in Startup.cs (see docs)

    🛠 Fixed some internal issues with the events system.

  • v1.8 Changes

    September 10, 2018

    Overview Of Changes

    • 📦 Moved Mailer to own project / nuget package (Coravel.Mailer).
      📦 Coravel core package therefore has no more dependency on MailKit, among others.
    • Appropriate namespace changes made throughout code
    • CLI command event new added
    • CLI text output changed to be more descriptive
    • CLI coloured output added

  • v1.7 Changes

    September 04, 2018
    • 🆕 New Feature "Events"
    • ⏱ Scheduled Task When method (contributed by @papakaliati)
    • 🛠 Fixed issue with CLI on Unix machines

  • v1.6 Changes

    August 28, 2018

    ⏱ Scheduler Overhaul

    ⏱ The scheduler was the first Coravel feature - which was just a prototype built one day while I had some time to kill while my kids were asleep ;) I just wanted to see if it was possible for me to get a really basic version coded.

    ⏱ As the dotnet community has indicated there is some real interest in this project, the scheduler has naturally been due for a re-write - if it is to be used in actual projects.

    ⏱ Internal Scheduler Changes (Briefly)

    • 👀 Internally - to decide whether a task was "due" - the time of a previously executed task was stored and then compared every 30 seconds against "Now" in order to see if the task should be executed again (yes - a naive implementation. This is why it needed a re-write!)
      There are issues with this such as:
      • Initially, every task has to run at startup to get a value for the "previous executed time."
      • Won't work when building a distributed scheduler (maybe a future feature)
      • How do we handle intervals like "every month"? Once you restart or re-deploy your app the counter resets! So it's really "every month only if you haven't re-deployed for a month".

    ✅ Unit Tests

    ✅ These changes have also increased the number of unit tests in Coravel from over 100 to almost 600! Something that should help the community feel like Coravel is a reliable library to use.

    Cron

    ⏱ Now the scheduler works like cron. Every minute the scheduled task checks the time and uses a cron expression to determine if it should run.

    ⏱ A side benefit is that we now have a Cron method available for scheduling tasks.

    I battled over whether or not to implement this myself. In the end, I decided that it was better not to add another dependency (especially since I couldn't find a library that was considered really trustworthy in this area).

    I don't want to re-invent the wheel - I'm all for using third-party / NuGet packages others have made. But I want to ensure that whatever I do use has already been considered a trustworthy and reliable package (for example, I decided to include MailKit for the Mailer feature. MailKit is considered by everyone to be the .Net Core SMTP mailing go-to)

    Threading Enhancements

    ⏱ The collection of scheduled tasks were simply held in a List. The scheduler allows scheduling tasks dynamically - while this isn't necessarily recommended (since these scheduled tasks will disappear after the application is closed) - it is possible. There may be some use-cases for this.

    ⏱ Anyways, using a List in multi-threaded use cases is bad. So now the scheduler is using a ConcurrentBag (among other internal enhancements such as using Task.WhenAll, etc.).

    ⏱ I'm still considering other parallel processing enhancements (to fire scheduled tasks in true parallel), but for now, the changes are needed and moving the right direction.

    ⏱ Schedule Configuration

    ⏱ Previously, all the scheduler config was done in ConfigureServices. This has changed to allow additional features and an implementation that uses .Net Core's DI container more properly.

    🔧 In ConfigureServices:

    services.AddScheduler()

    🔧 Then in Configure - all the existing configuration methods can be used:

    app.UseScheduler(scheduler =\>{ scheduler.Schedule( () =\> Console.WriteLine("Every minute during the week.") ) .EveryMinute(); .Weekday(); });

    🔧 Queue Configuration Changes

    Just like the point above, the queue had the same changes made:

    🔧 In ConfigureServices:

    services.AddQueue();

    🔧 In Configure:

    app .ConfigureQueue() .OnError(e =\> { //.... handle the error });

    Other New Features

    Invocables

    Coravel now exposes a concept of "Invocables". Basically, it's a class that can be "Invoked" (i.e. executed) asynchronously.

    ⏱ This allows us to create specific classes to do a certain "Job" in our system. These "jobs" can then be either scheduled or queued using a super simple syntax.

    this.\_queue.QueueInvocable\<GrabDataFromApiAndPutInDBInvocable\>();// orscheduler .Schedule\<GrabDataFromApiAndPutInDBInvocable\>() .EveryTenMinutes();

    Cli: Generate Invocable

    🆕 New command: coravel invocable new [yourInvocable] will generate a clean invocable all ready to go.

    Prevent Overlap

    Sometimes you may have long running tasks (longer than 1 minute?). The normal behaviour of the scheduler is to simply fire off a task if it is due. What if you don't want a "due" task to execute if the previously executed one is still running?

    scheduler .Schedule\<SomeInvocable\>() .EveryMinute() .PreventOverlapping("SomeInvocable");

  • v1.5 Changes

    August 03, 2018

    🚀 This pre-prod release includes the Mailer and Cli features for their first appearance!