How to schedule a one-off event at run-time?

[jackfox10]

Ok I know this is against the idea of using a scheduler but what if I have a use case where I want to schedule a job every x minutes but also when an event happens?

An example would be refreshing data every five minutes but also refreshing data when a user clicks a button for example.

As far as I know there this would not work:

registry.Schedule<MyJob>().ToRunEvery(5).Minutes();
onEventFired(() => registry.Schedule<MyJob>().ToRunNow());

But is there a way to get the scheduler to run the job as a one off?

I could of course just run the code from within onEventFired without the scheduler but I would be worried about thread safety in this case and would prefer to use the scheduler.

Thanks!

[ghost]

Inside the event handler just call JobManager.AddJob directly without having to schedule a Registry class. When you schedule a Registry you have to call JobManager.Initialize.

[mrgfisher]

Another option @jackfox10 ...

I've use the scheduler as thin as possible in the job defnition. Effectively all it does it fire of a command using the mediatr library (https://github.com/jbogard/MediatR) with the implementation in some other assembly. Then I've referenced the same assembly from whereever I can respond the user event and that too fires of a command. The handler then 'does its thing' caring not if its scheduled or user drive. i.e it's more about seperating the concerns into three - schedule a command, respond to user event with command, act on command.

Hope that makes some sense 😊