Example 6 - Dealing with Job Exceptions

This example is designed to demonstrate how can deal with job execution exceptions. Jobs in Quartz are permitted to throw a JobExecutionExceptions. When this exception is thrown, you can instruct quartz what action to take.

The program will perform the following actions:

• Start up the Quartz Scheduler
• Schedule two jobs, each job will execute the every three seconds, indefintely
• The jobs will throw an exception, and quartz will take appropriate action
• The program will wait 60 seconds so that the two jobs have plenty of time to run
• Shut down the Scheduler

Running the Example

This example can be executed from the examples/example6 directory. There are two out-of-the-box methods for running this example

• example6.sh - A UNIX/Linux shell script
• example6.bat - A Windows Batch file

The Code

The code for this example resides in the package org.quartz.examples.example6.

The code in this example is made up of the following classes:

BadJob1

BadJob1 is a simple job that simply creates an artificial exception (divide by zero). When this exception is caught, a JobExecutionException is thrown and set to refire the job immediatly.

        try {
            int zero = 0;
            int calculation = 4815 / zero;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
        	_log.info("--- Error in job!");
        	JobExecutionException e2 =
        		new JobExecutionException(e);
        	// this job will refire immediately
        	e2.refireImmediately();
        	throw e2;
        }

This will force quartz to run this job over and over and over and over again.

BadJob2

BadJob2 is a simple job that simply creates an artificial exception (divide by zero). When this exception is caught, a JobExecutionException is thrown and set to ensure that quartz never runs the job again.

        try {
            int zero = 0;
            int calculation = 4815 / zero;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
        	_log.info("--- Error in job!");
        	JobExecutionException e2 =
        		new JobExecutionException(e);
        	// Quartz will automatically unschedule
        	// all triggers associated with this job
        	// so that it does not run again
        	e2.setUnscheduleAllTriggers(true);
        	throw e2;
        }

This will force quartz to shutdown this job so that it does not run again.

JobExceptionExample

The program starts by getting an instance of the Scheduler. This is done by creating a StdSchedulerFactory and then using it to create a scheduler. This will create a simple, RAM-based scheduler.

SchedulerFactory sf = new StdSchedulerFactory();
Scheduler sched = sf.getScheduler();

Job #1 is scheduled to run every 3 seconds indefinitely. This job will fire BadJob1.

JobDetail job = newJob(BadJob1.class)
    .withIdentity("badJob1", "group1")
    .build();

SimpleTrigger trigger = newTrigger()
    .withIdentity("trigger1", "group1")
    .startAt(startTime)
    .withSchedule(simpleSchedule()
            .withIntervalInSeconds(3)
            .repeatForever())
    .build();

Date ft = sched.scheduleJob(job, trigger);

Job #2 is scheduled to run every 3 seconds indefinitely. This job will fire BadJob2.

job = newJob(BadJob2.class)
    .withIdentity("badJob2", "group1")
    .build();

trigger = newTrigger()
    .withIdentity("trigger2", "group1")
    .startAt(startTime)
    .withSchedule(simpleSchedule()
            .withIntervalInSeconds(3)
            .repeatForever())
    .build();

ft = sched.scheduleJob(job, trigger);

The scheduler is then started.

sched.start();

To let the program have an opportunity to run the job, we then sleep for 1 minute (60 seconds)

Thread.sleep(60L * 1000L);

This scheduler will run both jobs (BadJob1 and BadJob2). Both jobs will throw an exception. Job 1 should attempt to refire immediately. Job 2 should never run again.

Finally, we will gracefully shutdown the scheduler:

sched.shutdown(true);

Note: passing true into the shutdown message tells the Quartz Scheduler to wait until all jobs have completed running before returning from the method call.