Deleting an existing Periodic Job

[jpschafer]

Hello,
I had a question on how periodic jobs work. Currently I am manually requeuing a job that is short lived to poll for status of work being done on a remote service. I was thinking it would make sense for me to change this short lived job into a periodic job, but I wasn't sure if fundamentally it is still doing the same thing internally and was just a helper function (meaning it has no added efficiency benefit from reducing the amount of times of pushing short lived jobs onto the queue), and if it does have an added benefit, once I am done with that job, how do I remove it from the queue? I would be removing the job once it receives a task complete status from the remote service essentially, there's no reason for it to be on the queue anymore periodically polling.

I plan to have many concurrent periodic jobs running at the same time essentially for parallel processing purposes.

Thanks,
Jason Schafer

[sonus21]

Hi
Periodic jobs works like this

at time t0 => we enqueued a job with period p (in seconds for example)
t0+p => on message consumption(before calling listener method) a new job is scheduled to t0+p+p (even if there's a delay in message consumption new job would be scheduled for t0+2p)
to+3p => on message consumption(before calling listener method) a new job is scheduled to t0+3p (even if there's a delay in message consumption new job would be scheduled for t0+2p)

This process continues unless you delete the job manually. You can delete a periodic job same as other job.

rqueue/rqueue-core/src/main/java/com/github/sonus21/rqueue/listener/RqueueExecutor.java

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