Patrice, Thanks,
Ken On Jun 30, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Patrice (Cloud Platform Support) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ken! > > If you want to call that method and log the time when you call this? yes > definitely, this is what you want, and then you just hit that servlet > whenever you want that logged. > > Cheers! > > On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 6:56:06 PM UTC-4, Ken Bowen wrote: > Hey Patrice, > > It’s my mistake. All I really wanted to do was execute the java method > public static void crontest1(){ > final DateTimeFormatter fmt = > Constants.YMDHMS_DATETIME_FORMATTER; > String now = fmt.print(System.currentTimeMillis()); > logger.warn("############## crontest1() ############: " + > now); > } > > The jsp/js was just going to be a stepping stone to this, but now I > understand the fact that cron isn’t going to execute that jsp “headless”. > > o am I correct that the right way to do this is to write a simple servlet, > something like this: > > public class CronTest1Servlet extends LoggedHttpServlet { > private static Logger logger = > Logger.getLogger(CronTest1Servlet.class.getName()); > @Override > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException > { final DateTimeFormatter fmt = > DateTimeFormat.forPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z"); > String now = fmt.print(System.currentTimeMillis()); > logger.warn("############## CronTest1Servlet > ############: " + now); } > } > > Thanks much, > —Ken > > On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Patrice (Cloud Platform Support) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey Ken, > > > > I'm a bit unclear on your issue, so if you could clarify, it would be > > helpful. > > > > You have a cronJob on the /admin/cron/crontest1 URL that creates a js and > > displays it. When you hit the url yourself, it goes through... but when the > > job autoruns, it fails... right? > > > > If this is the behavior you're experiencing, I'd say it's to be expected... > > how would a scheduled cron job running on the backend display anything? > > > > Let me know if I'm the one not understanding your issue properly here. > > > > Cheers! > > > > On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 12:02:20 AM UTC-4, Ken Bowen wrote: > > > > I have a simple test cron job which does not succeed in running on GAE. > > The target url runs correctly when invoked from a browser (when I’m logged > > in as admin), but cron is not successfully running the job. The GAE Cron > > Jobs page shows: > > > > /admin/cron/crontest1 every 2 hours (America/New_York) > > Initial simple test 2015/06/28 23:18:03 2 secs late > > Failed > > > > Here’s the cron.xml: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <cronentries> > > <cron> > > <description>Initial simple test</description> > > <timezone>America/New_York</timezone> > > <url>/admin/cron/crontest1/</url> > > <schedule>every 2 hours</schedule> > > </cron> > > </cronentries> > > > > In web.xml, the <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern> gets the > > <security-constraint>: > > <auth-constraint> > > <role-name>admin</role-name> > > </auth-constraint> > > > > The target url /admin/cron/crontest1/ assembles a very simple jsp page > > equivalent to: > > <head> > > <script type='text/javascript' > > src='/admin/cron/crontest1/crontest1.js'></script> > > <script> > > $(document).ready(function() { > > crontest1init(); > > }); > > </script> > > </head> > > <body> > > <h1>CronTest1</h1> > > </body> > > > > where crontest1.js is just: > > > > function crontest1init() > > { > > AdminIntf.crontest1(); > > } > > > > And AdminIntf.crontest1() is just a DWR (Direct Web Remoting) call to this: > > > > public static void crontest1(){ > > final DateTimeFormatter fmt = > > Constants.YMDHMS_DATETIME_FORMATTER; > > String now = fmt.print(System.currentTimeMillis()); > > logger.warn("############## crontest1() ############: " + now); > > } > > > > When I am logged in as admin and issue the url > > > > http://[my.project].appspot.com/admin/cron/crontest1/ > > > > the result is a page showing > > > > CronTest1 > > > > and the logs show: > > > > ……/dwr/call/plaincall/AdminIntf.crontest1.dwr 200 …blah,blah > > I 2015-06-28 21:10:18.026 org.directwebremoting.util.CommonsLoggingOutput > > info: Exec: AdminIntf.crontest1() > > W 2015-06-28 21:10:18.064 com.strongbrain.admin.AdminIntf crontest1: > > ############## crontest1() ############: 2015-06-29 03:10:18 UTC > > > > The url action returns 200, but, as noted at top, cron doesn’t successfully > > run this. Clearly I’m missing something essential, but I can’t see what. > > Any help will definitely be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Ken Bowen > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > > Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/3OjCkOL2jhI/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e49bc100-aeda-475c-94d4-0dc9b3ef94b8%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/3OjCkOL2jhI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/c2d8444c-84a3-4693-979c-5b30fdca4cf7%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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