scheduling topics

[razibal]

How does the built-in scheduling function work? Is there a task that runs periodically and checks for scheduled tasks? I see that scheduled topics are created as 'deleted' topics with a timestamp set to the scheduled time, but I am not clear on which process evaluates them for undeleting.

[baris]

Yes a cronjob checks and undeletes them at the scheduled time.

[razibal]

@baris so there is a background task running every x minutes? Where is that scheduled?

[razibal]

The reason I ask is because I already have a scheduler running for background jobs (bulljs) and I would rather let that handle all scheduled tasks.

It looks like most of the logic is in Scheduled.startJobs and Scheduled.handleExpired in src/topics/scheduled.js

Is that all I need to look at?

[baris]

@razibal that's correct

[razibal]

@baris Thanks much, your help is always appreciated.