Have your crons simply schedule a task. Tasks automatically retry when they fail, with geometrically-increasing backoff intervals.
On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Marcel Manz <marcel.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes it happens that cron jobs aren't executed correctly and get marked > as 'failed' in the cron overview. Is there an option to tell App Engine to > automatically retry instead of marking the job as 'failed' ? > > We use simple cron jobs to distribute workloads via the taskqueue to worker > processes. If the cron fails to execute, the workload doesn't get distributed. > > Before we implement some cron-failure checks via marking and checking the > execution-success in datastore, I would like to ask first if there's any way > to have App Engine auto-repeat the cron job instead of marking it 'failed' ? > > Thanks > Marcel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
