Hi Austin,

so cron works again? Last time I checked, my bot was never notified
and all
threads here spoke of cron not working for now (possibly until the new
mechanism
is rolled out).

HC

On Nov 9, 4:14 am, "Austin Chau (Google employee)"
<api.aus...@google.com> wrote:
> 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/extensi...
>
> <http://google-wave-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/extensi...>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

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