We do not have documentation for the current cron setup for robot, due the reason you have mentioned that we are soon replacing it with a more robust mechanism. In the meanwhile, please check out the sample robot Stocky which uses the current cron setup -
http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/robots/java/stocky/ <http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensions/robots/java/stocky/>Essentially you specify your cron spec in the capabilities.xml. Map a handler to the URL in web.xml - <url-pattern>/_wave/robot/fetchupdate</url-pattern> Austin On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Smola <callmesm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know what a cron job is, I have just never created one. For ANY > platform. Google Wave is a very specific platform and there isn't > much documentation on it (crons with Wave). In the Java API tutorial, > cron jobs are mentioned as being available, but that's all I could > find on them. I have seen some other posts about cron jobs in groups > here and gathered that some lines of code should be added to the > capabilities.xml but I don't know the extent of the attributes I can > use or even how to use the ones I saw in the post (i think there was a > directory for a script? and then a time given that appeared to be an > interval like every 10 seconds). > > So my question is this: Is there some documentation I have missed in > terms of cron jobs with wave (for the Java API)? If not, could > someone give a quick run down of their understanding of how this could > be used? > > I am also aware that a mechanism is being developed that could replace > the need for cron jobs but I'd still like to familiarize myself with > the cron capabilities. Thanks for your time! > > Smola > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
