Call a service after few days.

Sourabh Dhiman

I want to call a service after 1 minute, or 10 minutes. I have store frequency (frequency is a number of days like 1 minute, 10 minutes) in the table context of a user. So user store data with a 1-week frequency so messages every week in the .net core

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Rajkiran Swain3y ago

using System;
using System.Threading;

public class Scheduler
{
    private Timer timer;
    
    public void ScheduleServiceCall(int frequencyInMinutes)
    {
        TimeSpan delay = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(frequencyInMinutes);
        TimeSpan interval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(frequencyInMinutes);
        
        timer = new Timer(ExecuteServiceCall, null, delay, interval);
    }
    
    private void ExecuteServiceCall(object state)
    {
        // Put your service call code here
        
        // The service call will be executed based on the specified frequency
    }
}

Vishal Joshi3y ago
Hello

Please check out my below article for the same.

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/create-window-service-in-net-core/

Thanks

Vishal
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Mohamed Azarudeen Z3y ago

Hi sunny for that

Create a Background Service:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

public class MyBackgroundService : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly ILogger _logger;

    public MyBackgroundService(ILogger logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            // Get the user's stored frequency from the database or context
            var frequencyInMinutes = GetUserFrequency(); // Replace with your logic to retrieve the frequency

            // Wait for the specified interval
            await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(frequencyInMinutes), stoppingToken);

            // Perform the desired logic here, such as calling the service
            await CallService();

            // Log the execution
            _logger.LogInformation("Service called successfully.");
        }
    }

    private Task CallService()
    {
        // Replace with your logic to call the desired service
        // You can use HttpClient or any other method to make the API call
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    private int GetUserFrequency()
    {
        // Replace with your logic to retrieve the user's stored frequency
        // This could be from a database query or any other data source
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // ...

    services.AddHostedService();

    // ...
}

and config ythe dependency injection'

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // ...

    services.AddHttpClient();

    // ...
}