When using the Spring 3.0 capability to annotate a scheduled task, I would like to set the fixedDelay
as parameter from my configuration file, instead of hard-wiring it into my task class, like currently...
@Scheduled(fixedDelay = 5000)
public void readLog() {
...
}
Unfortunately it seems that with the means of the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) @Value
returns a String object which in turn is not able to be auto-boxed to a long value as required by the fixedDelay
parameter.
I guess the @Scheduled
annotation is out of question. So maybe a solution for you would be to use task-scheduled
XML configuration. Let's consider this example (copied from Spring doc):
<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
<task:scheduled ref="someObject" method="readLog"
fixed-rate="#{YourConfigurationBean.stringValue}"/>
</task:scheduled-tasks>
... or if the cast from String to Long didn't work, something like this would:
<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
<task:scheduled ref="someObject" method="readLog"
fixed-rate="#{T(java.lang.Long).valueOf(YourConfigurationBean.stringValue)}"/>
</task:scheduled-tasks>
Again, I haven't tried any of these setups, but I hope it might help you a bit.
Spring v3.2.2 has added String parameters to the original 3 long parameters to handle this. fixedDelayString
, fixedRateString
and initialDelayString
are now available too.
@Scheduled(fixedDelayString = "${my.fixed.delay.prop}")
public void readLog() {
...
}
You can use the @Scheduled
annotation, but together with the cron
parameter only:
@Scheduled(cron = "${yourConfiguration.cronExpression}")
Your 5 seconds interval could be expressed as "*/5 * * * * *"
. However as I understand you cannot provide less than 1 second precision.
I guess you can convert the value yourself by defining a bean. I haven't tried that, but I guess the approach similar to the following might be useful for you:
<bean id="FixedDelayLongValue" class="java.lang.Long"
factory-method="valueOf">
<constructor-arg value="#{YourConfigurationBean.stringValue}"/>
</bean>
where:
<bean id="YourConfigurationBean" class="...">
<property name="stringValue" value="5000"/>
</bean>