DSL reschedule anonymous timer

[xgon (Alexandre Gonçalves)]

Hello,

I need to reschedule a timer, but since it’s used in a Procedure, it would be more confortable to declare it anonymously, like this:

createTimer(now, [ |
   if (some_condition) {
      reschedule(now.plusSeconds(1))
   } else {
      do_something()
  }
])

Obviously the above code fails on the reschedule(now.plusSeconds(1)) statement. Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks.

[rossko57]

@xgon

Is there any way to achieve this?

No. You have to tell it what to reschedule, somehow.

The usual trick where there may be a number of similar timers is to store the handles in a ‘global’ Map,indexed by related Item name or similar.
Example-

Rule optimization: Window OPEN reminder

To start with, I’d try something like this: put all your windows that you want a notification for in a group items file: Group:Contact:OR(OPEN,CLOSED) allWindows Contact DGBadFenster (allWindows) Contact DGFlurFenster (allWindows) ... persist that group with, for example, mapdb mapdb.persist: allWindows* : strategy = everyChange,restoreOnStartup add 2 map-files to your transform folder. windowShortName.map: DGBadFenster=DG Bad DGFlurFenster=DG Flur ... ... ... windowLongName.map: D…

[xgon (Alexandre Gonçalves)]

I ended up using a List to reference all the timers inside the Procedure.