[SOLVED] Add a way to trigger or test a cron job

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I’m trying to start using Drone 1.1’s cron jobs, moving from something else that promoted builds to achieve the same.

However, I want these cron jobs to run every few hours, and the cron scheduler isn’t exact, so it’s hard to get Drone to fire a cron job so I can check whether my drone.yml is properly set up with the cron “when” filter or not.

It would be ideal to have a command I can use for this, like drone cron fire <name>.

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Bump @bradrydzewski? Some other users seem to agree. I’m following the rule to use the forum instead of the issue tracker, but I get the impression that most of my suggestions end up getting buried in the forum.

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I’d love to see this as well. I haven’t found a way to do this, but what I’d like to do even as a workaround is have 2 triggers which could launch the event, something like this:

trigger:
  event:
    - cron
    - promote
  target:
    - prod
  cron:
    - weekly

But the catch is that one or the other trigger conditions need to be met - not both. Looks like Drone evaluates the conditions together with ANDs, so this wouldn’t work as is.

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This is an old thread and the information is outdated. The ability to trigger and test a cron job is available to Drone version 1.5.0 and higher. You can find the relevant release notes here and the API documentation here.