Scheduler

Modules

The scheduler service consists of the following modules:

• scheduler-api An API module defining the core scheduler functions and properties.
• scheduler-impl The default implementation of the scheduler service as an OSGi service using the AssetManager as it's backend storage.
• scheduler-remote The remote implementation of the scheduler service as an OSGi service.
• scheduler-conflict-handler The default implementation of a conflict handler strategy.
• scheduler-conflict-notifier-comment A conflict notifier implementation adding comments on the conflicting events.
• scheduler-conflict-notifier-email A conflict notifier implementation sending an email including all conflicting events.

Database

The scheduler service uses three tables:

• mh_scheduled_extended_event Manages extended scheduled event metadata. Not used yet.
• mh_scheduled_last_modified Manages the last recording modification date of a status change on an event sent by the capture agent.
• mh_scheduled_transaction Manages the active transactions.

Conflict Handler

The conflict handler implements a strategy to resolve conflicts by either using the new or the old schedule according the configuration.

Conflict Notifier

There are two implementations of a conflict notifier available and activated by default.

• The Email conflict notifier will send an email including all conflicting events to a configured recipient.
• The Comment conflict notifier will add a comment on the conflicting event describing the conflict.

Default API

Here is a sample to create a single event with the scheduler Java API.

  public void createEvent(Event event) {
    schedulerService.addEvent(event.getStart(),
                              event.getEnd(),
                              event.getAgentId(),
                              event.getUsers(),
                              event.getMediaPackage(),
                              event.getWfProperties(),
                              event.getCaMetadata(),
                              event.getOptOut(),
                              event.getSource(),
                              "organization-xyz-script";
  }

Transactional API

Here is a simplified code example of how to use the Scheduler Java API to synchronize timetable events to scheduled events. It is mandatory that the media package identifier is stable for the created events of the timetable system.

  public void syncTimeTable(List<Event> timeTableEvents) {
    SchedulerTransaction tx = null;
    try {
      logger.info("Sync timetable to scheduler | start");
      tx = schedulerService.createTransaction("timetable");
      for (Event event : timeTableEvents) {
        tx.addEvent(
                event.getStart(),
                event.getEnd(),
                event.getAgentId(),
                event.getUsers(),
                event.getMediaPackage(),
                event.getWfProperties(),
                event.getCaMetadata(),
                event.getOptOut());
      }
      tx.commit();
      logger.info("Sync timetable to scheduler | end");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      logger.error("Sync timetable to scheduler | error\n{}", e);
      if (tx != null) {
        logger.error("Sync timetable to scheduler | rollback transaction");
        try {
          tx.rollback();
        } catch (Exception e2) {
          logger.error("Sync timetable to scheduler | error doing rollback\n{}", e2);
        }
      }
    }
  }