Crate cron_lingo[−][src]
This crate allows to parse a cron-like, human-readable expression.
The resulting object can be turned into an iterator to compute the next
time::OffsetDateTime
one at a time.
The basic idea was to strip down the set of features that we know from our favorite implementation of cron in order to keep the results predictable, which may or may not be the case with cron in some situations (e.g. using the step notation "*/2").
Example
use cron_lingo::Timetable; let expr = "at 9 o'clock on Monday and Friday"; let timetable = Timetable::new(expr).unwrap(); assert!(timetable.into_iter().next().is_some());
Expression syntax
The syntax is quite limited, but intentionally so.
Here are a few examples:
Hour | Weekday (optional) | Week (optional) |
---|---|---|
at every hour | on Monday and Tuesday | in odd weeks |
at 7 and 8 o'clock | on Tuesday, Saturday | in even weeks |
at 7, 8 and 16 o'clock | on Friday | |
at 6, 12, 18 o'clock | ||
at 8 o'clock | in odd weeks | |
at 8 o'clock | on Wednesday | in the first week of the month |
at 8 o'clock | on Wednesday | in the second week of the month |
at 8 o'clock | on Wednesday | in the third week of the month |
at 8 o'clock | on Wednesday and Sunday | in the fourth week of the month |
The examples are quite self-explanatory, but the last four may need some clarification:
In the final example, next()
could return the date of the fourth Wednesday of this month
(or the next if the current one is in the past). But only if the fourth Sunday of this
month does not predate the fourth Wednesday, which may be the case when the month in question
begins on e.g. Friday.
As you can also see in the table above the column "Week" does not depend on the second block
"Weekday". However omitting the Weekday spec. rarely makes sense. The example in row #5 would
(assuming now is a Sunday in an even week) return a time::OffsetDateTime
for the next seven
days ... and then put in a break for the following week.
Re-exports
pub use self::timetable::Timetable; |
Modules
error | |
timetable |