README.md

Scheduler

Cypress env settings

Cypress needs a couple of environment variables to function correctly for local testing. They can be defined in a cypress.env.json at the root of the project. You can use cypress.env.json.example as a template by copying it, removing the .example suffix and replacing the username and password.

Concepts

These concepts are used throughout the app:

• A job is a single task that can be planned with a cron expression, or to run with a certain interval between executions (delay).
• A queue or job queue is a collection of jobs that will be executed in sequence.
• A queueable is a job that is not part of a queue (this concept is not used in the ui)
• We retrieve items from the /scheduler endpoint to simplify rendering the root list view. These can be either jobs or queues. Instead of calling these schedules, after the endpoint, we're calling these jobsAndQueues. This is to prevent confusion with the schedule property of jobs and queues.

In the ui we're using the concepts job queue and job (so the user is only aware of those terms). We also use the heading Scheduled jobs in the list view, since the queues and jobs essentially are all scheduled jobs.