how to send an array as parameter to quartz scheduled job in C#?

Question

i use quartz.net in asp.net mvc for executes some scheduled jobs every 1 minute, normally you can send some parameters to your job in this code i send two string parameter as key/value to my job

IJobDetail SendMatchQuestionJob = JobBuilder.Create<QuestionJob>()

                       .UsingJobData("param1", "value1")
                       .UsingJobData("param2", "value2")
                       .Build();

i want to send an array of strings to scheduled job instead of simple string value,have you any idead? or sample?

thank you in advanced.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '16 at 09:04

You could use JobDataMap. The UsingJobData() has an overload for JobDataMap. You could build your JobDataMap something like this:

IJobDetail SendMatchQuestionJob = JobBuilder.Create<QuestionJob>().Build();
SendMatchQuestionJob.JobDataMap["testArray"] = new string[]{"item1", "item2"};

Later you can fetch it from JobDataMap thru execution context:

public void Execute(JobExecutionContext context)
    {
      JobKey key = context.JobDetail.Key;

      JobDataMap dataMap = context.JobDetail.JobDataMap; 
      string[] testArray = (string[]) dataMap["testArray"];
    }

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '16 at 09:03

I don't see any valid overloads for UsingJobData() method so maybe a viable option would be passing a string with a delimiter like:

IJobDetail SendMatchQuestionJob = JobBuilder.Create<QuestionJob>()
                       .UsingJobData("params", "value1;value2;value3")
                       .Build();

And just splitting it using string.Split() method afterwards.

how to send an array as parameter to quartz scheduled job in C#?

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