Is there a way to run Cron Jobs with Ktor? My end objective is to host a Cron Job written with Kotlin for the Coinverse Android app's backend service to populate data. Much appreciated! 🙏 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59516599/how-to-run-cron-jobs-in-kotlin-ktor Also, Google has an interesting alpha outside of Ktor that could be a good alternative for running timed tasks to populate data, Using Kotlin with Google Cloud Functions: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kotlin-samples/tree/master/functions

Simply launch a coroutine on the application scope with a loop with delay

For AWS we have pretty much same —

@Scheduled

in #kotless. It will also support cloud-based Cron jobs for Ktor starting with 1.3.0

Thanks @cy and @TanVD! @cy, I'm not looking to build any endpoints to make requests with Ktor. The goal is to run the

Coroutine

inside the

Application.main

method to populate data on a given time frequency. Would this implementation work?

import io.ktor.application.Application
fun Application.main() {
    // Coroutine with a loop and delay here.
}

You need to launch it

Awesome. Can I use

GlobalScope

or

Application

scope?