@florian-h05 , @digitaldan , @jpg0 This didn’t seem right to file as an issue but I can do is if that seems best. Why are we completely getting rid of createTimer? setTimeout is not equivalent. We can’t set a name. We have to do additional calculations to schedule one based on an Instant, which is…

Good news: The PR https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/pull/13695 has been merged, so createTimer is now thread-safe. @rlkoshak Can you mark this thread as solved?

[image] stefan.hoehn: If am not completely wrong it does also break everything in the blockly timers, does it not? No, this only impacts JS Scripting ECMAScript 11. Unless you’ve been busy Blockly still uses Nashorn ECMAScript 5.1, right?

FTR: Refactor ScriptExecution to plain Java ScriptExtension by J-N-K · Pull Request #3155 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub

I didn’t want to go through installing the library and editing it so I just added the following to the openhab.log file appender in log4j2.xml.  <RollingFile fileName="${sys:openhab.logdir}/openhab.log" filePattern="${sys:openhab.logdir}/openhab.log.%i.gz" name…

FYI: Thanks to the work of @J-N-K at Refactor ScriptExecution to plain Java ScriptExtension by J-N-K · Pull Request #3155 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub , I am making pretty good progress at implementing solution 1: [image] florian-h05: Make createTimer threadsafe by wrapping the callback passe…

PR is now open: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/pull/13695 .

Update: We have just published a new version of the openHAB JavaScript library to npm. The deprecation warning for createTimer has been removed as this API is no longer deprecated, but createTimerWithArgument will stay deprecated. The new release is backward compatible, but the timers created by c…

[image] florian-h05: but createTimerWithArgument will stay deprecated. That can be “faked” using a function generator. I think we already cover that in the docs so we are probably already good on that front.

[image] rlkoshak: That can be “faked” using a function generator. I think we already cover that in the docs so we are probably already good on that front. Yes, that was also part of our argumentation, and this is also the better way as it is pure JS and less confusing then createTimerWithArgu…

@rlkoshak Can you please move that thread to the Development category? I am not sure if the normal forum users should read it‘s content as this is thread is more about technological stuff.

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MartOs (MartOs) February 16, 2023, 8:10pm 32

Great work