Design Pattern: Recursive Timers

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@fex

The looping timer would have no (easy) way of counting the repetitions (to increase the duration of the next timer), the cascading timer doesn’t seem to fit my scenario.

Yes there is:

var loopCount = 1
myTimer = createTimer(now.plusSeconds(loopCount), [ |
    // do stuff
    if(continue) {
        loopCount = loopCount + 1
        myTimer.reschedule(now.plusSeconds(loopCount))
    }
]

I’m 90% certain this will work as I have a memory of testing this at some point. The lambda get’s a copy of loopCount and because we are rescheduling it instead of recreating it loopCount + 1 get’s preserved until the next run of the Timer.

@fex

Once again - thx for your help and your great DPs - and lets see what I can use from the different DPs to build a custom solution for my problem

Don’t forget to combine DPs. They are not intended to be used in isolation. I have one Rule that uses five or six DPs in ten lines of code.