Is this an ok way to run backround tasks in ktor? ...

# ktor

[Kristian Nedrevold]

Is this an ok way to run backround tasks in ktor?

suspend fun Application.runJobs(jobService: JobService) {
    withContext(this.coroutineContext) {
        launch {
            while (true) {
                delay(1000)
                println("hello")
            }
        }
    }
}

[simon.vergauwen]

Application extends CoroutineScope so the withContext is not needed afaik.

That is the correct way to run background jobs that need to have same lifecycle as Application.

[Kristian Nedrevold]

Yeah you're right. I am trying to add some scheduled tasks like Quartz provide, but I have always felt that Quartz is a bit heavy handed so I am hoping I can keep it simple with coroutines 🙂

[Kristian Nedrevold]

Creating an ETL application with Ktor and Arrow, great experience so far!

[simon.vergauwen]

Awesome 🙌 I don't have much experience with Quartz, but I am very happy with Ktor and KotlinX Coroutines.

It's much simpler than any other similar library I worked with in Java. Also love Arrow but I am a bit biased 😜

[Kristian Nedrevold]

I watched the videos you did with Jetbrains recently. I had chosen a stack of Ktor/Arrow/SQLDelight a long time ago for some small microservice. And after I finished it I saw you had made some videos with JetBrains... Had to do some refactoring after I watched them. Really good stuff, keep it up!

[ayodele]

@Kristian Nedrevold can you kindly drop a link to the video?.

[simon.vergauwen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79A6HmbW5M▾