Support for standard Cron like definitions

[fredleger]

Is there any way to use the "standard" cron expressions with this package ?

something like:

gocron.Parse("00 07 * * *").Do(its7amTask())

The use case is to have the user define it's own logic from a config file.

[depado]

I don't think there is as this library mainly intends to redefine the way we work with cron-like jobs with a human-friendly syntax. There are several packages that could help you with that I think.
That would be an interesting thing to code though (parsing cron syntax and return a gocron scheduler)

[fredleger]

Ok, good to me. Can you put some links to the mentioned package that can do that ?

[depado]

A simple search yields this result: https://github.com/gorhill/cronexpr
I'm not sure it's still maintained though

[zak905]

This is a great idea, I am wondering if there were any attempts to implement ?

[JohnRoesler]

Hi @zak905! As the readme notes, this repo is no longer being maintained. We have an active fork over at https://github.com/go-co-op/gocron where we now support crontab expressions!

[zak905]

interesting, thanks for the info