I've been looking at the latest checkout (35) of the AppEngine SDK (which might be the same as 1.1.8), trying to at least figure out how cron *will* work. Here's what I've found so far.
Interestingly, the SDK's antlr definitions are incompatible with the version of antlr invluded in the sdk, so I had to rename lib/antlr3 and install 3.1.1 from http://www.antlr.org/download/Python There's a new yaml file at the root of your application, "cron.yaml". Here's a simple one that validates: ------------------- cron: - url: /cron schedule: every 2 hours ------------------- You can also optionally include a timezone and description. Here's what groctimespecification.py says about the schedule format: "A Groc schedule looks like '1st,2nd monday 9:00', or 'every 20 mins'. This module takes a parsed schedule (produced by Antlr) and creates objects that can produce times that match this schedule." If cron.yaml is present but empty or invalid, appcfg.py update fails with "google.appengine.api.croninfo.MalformedCronfigurationFile", if the schedule line is invalid, it fails with "Error parsing yaml file:". Otherwise, cron definitions are uploaded distinctly from all the other files. ther...@localhost:~/projects/appname$ appcfg.py update . Scanning files on local disk. Scanned 500 files. Initiating update. Cloning 155 static files. Cloned 100 files. Cloning 57 application files. Closing update. Uploading index definitions. *Uploading cron entries.* So, all the SDK pieces appear to work, but my testing indicates this isn't running on the production servers yet-- I set up an "every 1 minutes" cron that logs when it runs, and it hasn't been called yet They DO show up in the dashboard though, under admin logs: 01/19/09 07:32:28 rosskarch...@gmail.com Added cron job 'None' schedule=every 2 hours, url=/cron 01/19/09 07:32:28 rosskarch...@gmail.com Removed cron job 'None ' schedule=every 1 minutes, url=/cron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
