4 Plugin Configuration

Configuring the plugin

The plugin supports configuration settings defined in grails-app/conf/application.yml.

---
quartz:
    autoStartup: true

Currently supported options:

• autoStartup controls automatic startup of the Quartz scheduler during application bootstrap (default: true )
• jdbcStore set to true if you want Quartz to persist jobs in your DB (default: false ), you'll also need to provide quartz.properties file and make sure that required tables exist in your db (see Clustering section below for the sample config and automatic tables creation using Hibernate)

Logging

A log is auto-injected into your task Job class without having to enable it. To set the logging level, just add something like this to your grails-app/conf/Config.groovy log4j configuration.

debug 'grails.app.jobs'

Hibernate Sessions and Jobs

Jobs are configured by default to have Hibernate Session bounded to thread each time job is executed. This is required if you are using Hibernate code which requires open session (such as lazy loading of collections) or working with domain objects with unique persistent constraint (it uses Hibernate Session behind the scene). If you want to override this behavior (rarely useful) you can use 'sessionRequired' property:

static sessionRequired = false

Configuring concurrent execution

By default Jobs are executed in concurrent fashion, so new Job execution can start even if previous execution of the same Job is still running. If you want to override this behavior you can use 'concurrent' property, in this case Quartz's StatefulJob will be used (you can find more info about it here):

static concurrent = false

Configuring Job Enabled

By default all jobs are considered enabled. In some cases it may be desired to temporarily disable a job. This can be done by overriding the jobEnabled property behavior

static jobEnabled = false

Configuring description

Quartz allows for each job to have a short description. This may be configured by adding a description field to your Job. The description can be accessed at runtime using the JobManagerService and inspecting the JobDetail object.

static description = "Example Job Description"

Clustering

Quartz plugin doesn't support clustering out-of-the-box now. However, you could use standard Quartz clustering configuration. Take a look at the example provided by Burt Beckwith. You'll also need to set jdbcStore configuration option to true .

There are also two parameters for configuring store/clustering on jobs ( volatility and durability , both are true by default) and one for triggers ( volatility , also true by default). Volatile job and trigger will not persist between Quartz runs, and durable job will live even when there is no triggers referring to it.

Read Quartz documentation for more information on clustering and job stores as well as volatility and durability.

Now that the plugin supports Quartz 2.1.x, you can now use current versions of open source Terracotta see https://github.com/rvanderwerf/terracotta-grails-demo for an example app.

Recovering

Since 0.4.2 recovering from 'recovery' or 'fail-over' situation is supported with requestsRecovery job-level flag ( false by default).

If a job "requests recovery", and it is executing during the time of a 'hard shutdown' of the scheduler (i.e. the process it is running within crashes, or the machine is shut off), then it is re-executed when the scheduler is started again. In this case, the JobExecutionContext.isRecovering() method will return true.