The ultimate goal for this project is to provide a really easy way to create MVC actions to be invoked by a cron job service. Let's say I have an action I want called every day at 6AM. I'd like this to be as easy as adding an attribute to the action with a cron expression:
public class DashboardController : Controller
{
[SetCronJob("0 6 * * *")]
public async Task<IActionResult> Refresh()
{
// do something useful
}
}There are a number of cron job services out there. I went looking, and found SetCronJob. I liked their price and straightforward presentation. They also have an API, which is important for my approach. In order to wire up MVC actions with a cron job service, I need something to find endpoints in my MVC app that have the [SetCronJob] attribute and create cron jobs in a backend service accordingly.
I'm still working on the endpoint discovery piece, but I do have a minimal API client working with SetCronJob:
This package has a Client object with this interface
This is a work in progress.