Current Version: 1.0.0-rc

Current Release: Calimero

Leprechaun is tool where you can schedule your recurring tasks to be performed over and over.

In Leprechaun tasks are recipes, lets observe simple recipe file which is written using YAML syntax.

File is located in recipes directory which can be specified in configs.ini configurational file.

By definition there are 3 types of recipes, the ones that can be scheduled, the others that can be hooked and last ones that use cron pattern for scheduling jobs, they are similiar regarding steps but have some difference in definition

First we will talk about scheduled recipes and they are defined like this:

name: job1 // name of recipe
definition: schedule // definition of which type is recipe
schedule:
	min: 0 // every min
	hour: 0 // every hour
	day: 0 // every day
steps: // steps are done from first to last
	- touch ./test.txt
	- echo "Is this working?" > ./test.txt
	- mv ./test.txt ./imwondering.txt

If we set something like this

schedule:
	min: 10 // every min
	hour: 2 // every hour
	day: 2 // every day

Task will run every 2 days 2 hours and 10 mins, if we put just days to 0 then it will run every 2 hours and 10 mins

name: job2 // name of recipe
definition: hook // definition of which type is recipe
id: 45DE2239F // id which we use to find recipe
steps:
	- echo "Hooked!" > ./hook.txt

Hooked recipe can be run by sending request to {host}:{port}/hook?id={id_of_recipe} on which Leprechaun server is listening, for example localhost:11400/hook?id=45DE2239F.

Recipes that use cron pattern to schedule tasks are used like this:

name: job3 // name of recipe
definition: cron // definition of which type is recipe
pattern: * * * * *
steps: // steps are done from first to last
	- touch ./test.txt
	- echo "Is this working?" > ./test.txt
	- mv ./test.txt ./imwondering.txt

Steps also support variables which syntax is $variable, and those are environment variables ex: $LOGNAME and in our steps it will be available as $LOGNAME. We can now rewrite our job file and it will look like something like this:

name: job1 // name of recipe
definition: schedule
schedule:
	min: 0 // every min
	hour: 0 // every hour
	day: 0 // every day
steps: // steps are done from first to last
	- echo "Is this working?" > $LOGNAME

Usage is very straightforward, you just need to start client and it will run recipes you defined previously.

Steps also can be defined as sync/async tasks which is defined by ->, but keep in mind that steps in recipes are performed by linear path because one that is not async can block other from performing, lets take this one as example

steps:
- -> ping google.com
- echo "I will not wait above task to perform, he is async so i will start immidiatelly"

but in this case for example first task will block performing on any task and all others will hang waiting it to finish

steps:
- ping google.com
- -> echo "I need to wait above step to finish, then i can do my stuff"

Go to leprechaun directory and run make install, you will need sudo privileges for this.

To start leprechaun just simply run it in background like this : leprechaun &

Starting just specific: leprechaun --cmd='client:start' &, leprechaun --cmd='server:start' &, leprechaun --cmd='cron:start' &, to stop {agent}:stop

For more available commands run leprechaun help

For cli tools take a look here

To run tests with covarage make test, to run tests and generate reports run make test-with-report files will be generated in coverprofile dir