Introduction

Quartz is a full-featured, open-source job scheduling system that can be used from the smallest apps to large-scale enterprise systems.

The Abp.Quartz package simply integrates Quartz to ASP.NET Boilerplate.

ASP.NET Boilerplate has a built-in persistent background job queue and background worker system. Quartz can be a good alternative if you have advanced scheduling requirements for your background workers. Hangfire can also be a good alternative for persistent background job queues.

Installation

Install the Abp.Quartz NuGet package to your project and add a DependsOn attribute to your module for AbpQuartzModule:

[DependsOn(typeof (AbpQuartzModule))]
public class YourModule : AbpModule
{
    //...
}

Creating Jobs

To create a new job, you can either implement Quartz's IJob interface, or derive from the JobBase class (defined in the Abp.Quartz package) that has some helper properties/methods for logging and localization, for example. A simple job class is shown below:

public class MyLogJob : JobBase, ITransientDependency
{
    public override Task Execute(IJobExecutionContext context)
    {
        Logger.Info("Executed MyLogJob..!");
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

We simply implemented the Execute method to write a log. You can see Quartz's documentation for more info.

Schedule Jobs

The IQuartzScheduleJobManager is used to schedule jobs. You can inject it to your class (or you can Resolve and use it in your module's PostInitialize method) to schedule jobs. An example Controller that schedules a job:

public class HomeController : AbpController
{
    private readonly IQuartzScheduleJobManager _jobManager;

    public HomeController(IQuartzScheduleJobManager jobManager)
    {
        _jobManager = jobManager;
    }
        
    public async Task<ActionResult> ScheduleJob()
    {
        await _jobManager.ScheduleAsync<MyLogJob>(
            job =>
            {
                job.WithIdentity("MyLogJobIdentity", "MyGroup")
                    .WithDescription("A job to simply write logs.");
            },
            trigger =>
            {
                trigger.StartNow()
                    .WithSimpleSchedule(schedule =>
                    {
                        schedule.RepeatForever()
                            .WithIntervalInSeconds(5)
                            .Build();
                    });
            });

        return Content("OK, scheduled!");
    }
}   

More

Please see Quartz's documentation for more information.