public static class Time.CronExpression
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

Thanks to Quartz project, https://quartz.dev.java.net Provides a parser and evaluator for unix-like cron expressions. Cron expressions provide the ability to specify complex time combinations such as "At 8:00am every Monday through Friday" or "At 1:30am every last Friday of the month". Cron expressions are comprised of 6 required fields and one optional field separated by white space. The fields respectively are described as follows: Field Name Allowed Values Allowed Special Characters Seconds , - * / Minutes , - * / Hours , - * / Day-of-month , - * ? / L W Month 1-12 or JAN-DEC , - * / Day-of-Week 1-7 or SUN-SAT , - * ? / L # Year (Optional) empty, 1970-2099 , - * / The '*' character is used to specify all values. For example, "*" in the minute field means "every minute". The '?' character is allowed for the day-of-month and day-of-week fields. It is used to specify 'no specific value'. This is useful when you need to specify something in one of the two fileds, but not the other. The '-' character is used to specify ranges For example "10-12" in the hour field means "the hours 10, 11 and 12". The ',' character is used to specify additional values. For example "MON,WED,FRI" in the day-of-week field means "the days Monday, Wednesday, and Friday". The '/' character is used to specify increments. For example "0/15" in the seconds field means "the seconds 0, 15, 30, and 45". And "5/15" in the seconds field means "the seconds 5, 20, 35, and 50". Specifying '*' before the '/' is equivalent to specifying 0 is the value to start with. Essentially, for each field in the expression, there is a set of numbers that can be turned on or off. For seconds and minutes, the numbers range from 0 to 59. For hours 0 to 23, for days of the month 0 to 31, and for months 1 to 12. The "/" character simply helps you turn on every "nth" value in the given set. Thus "7/6" in the month field only turns on month "7", it does NOT mean every 6th month, please note that subtlety. The 'L' character is allowed for the day-of-month and day-of-week fields. This character is short-hand for "last", but it has different meaning in each of the two fields. For example, the value "L" in the day-of-month field means "the last day of the month" - day 31 for January, day 28 for February on non-leap years. If used in the day-of-week field by itself, it simply means "7" or "SAT". But if used in the day-of-week field after another value, it means "the last xxx day of the month" - for example "6L" means "the last friday of the month". When using the 'L' option, it is important not to specify lists, or ranges of values, as you'll get confusing results. The 'W' character is allowed for the day-of-month field. This character is used to specify the weekday (Monday-Friday) nearest the given day. As an example, if you were to specify "15W" as the value for the day-of-month field, the meaning is: "the nearest weekday to the 15th of the month". So if the 15th is a Saturday, the trigger will fire on Friday the 14th. If the 15th is a Sunday, the trigger will fire on Monday the 16th. If the 15th is a Tuesday, then it will fire on Tuesday the 15th. However if you specify "1W" as the value for day-of-month, and the 1st is a Saturday, the trigger will fire on Monday the 3rd, as it will not 'jump' over the boundary of a month's days. The 'W' character can only be specified when the day-of-month is a single day, not a range or list of days. The 'L' and 'W' characters can also be combined for the day-of-month expression to yield 'LW', which translates to "last weekday of the month". The '#' character is allowed for the day-of-week field. This character is used to specify "the nth" xxx day of the month. For example, the value of "6#3" in the day-of-week field means the third Friday of the month (day 6 = Friday and "#3" = the 3rd one in the month). Other examples: "2#1" = the first Monday of the month and "4#5" = the fifth Wednesday of the month. Note that if you specify "#5" and there is not 5 of the given day-of-week in the month, then no firing will occur that month. The legal characters and the names of months and days of the week are not case sensitive. NOTES:

Support for specifying both a day-of-week and a day-of-month value is not complete (you'll need to use the '?' character in on of these fields).

See Also:

Serialized Form

Time.CronExpression (java.lang.String cronExpression)

Constructs a new CronExpression based on the specified parameter.

protected java.lang.String getExpressionSetSummary (java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.Integer> list) protected java.lang.String getExpressionSetSummary (java.util.Set<java.lang.Integer> set) java.lang.String getExpressionSummary () java.util.Date getFinalFireTime ()

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: Returns the final time that the CronExpression will match.

protected int getLastDayOfMonth (int monthNum, int year) protected int getMonthNumber (java.lang.String s) getNextInterval (java.util.Date date)

Return the interval between the next valid date and the one after

java.util.Date getNextInvalidTimeAfter (java.util.Date date)

Returns the next date/time after the given date/time which does not satisfy the expression

java.util.Date getNextValidTimeAfter (java.util.Date date)

Returns the next date/time after the given date/time which satisfies the cron expression.

protected int getNumericValue (java.lang.String s, int i) protected java.util.TreeSet<java.lang.Integer> getSet (int type) protected java.util.Date getTimeAfter (java.util.Date afterTime) protected java.util.Date getTimeBefore (java.util.Date endTime)

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: Returns the time before the given time that the CronExpression matches.

java.util.TimeZone getTimeZone ()

Returns the time zone for which this CronExpression will be resolved.

protected play.libs.Time.ValueSet getValue (int v, java.lang.String s, int i) protected boolean isLeapYear (int year) boolean isSatisfiedBy (java.util.Date date)

Indicates whether the given date satisfies the cron expression.

static boolean isValidExpression (java.lang.String cronExpression)

Indicates whether the specified cron expression can be parsed into a valid cron expression

protected void setCalendarHour (java.util.Calendar cal, int hour)

Advance the calendar to the particular hour paying particular attention to daylight saving problems.

setTimeZone (java.util.TimeZone timeZone)

Sets the time zone for which this CronExpression will be resolved.

protected int skipWhiteSpace (int i, java.lang.String s) protected int storeExpressionVals (int pos, java.lang.String s, int type) java.lang.String toString ()

Returns the string representation of the CronExpression

Time.CronExpression

public Time.CronExpression(java.lang.String cronExpression)
                    throws java.text.ParseException

Constructs a new CronExpression based on the specified parameter.

Parameters:

cronExpression - String representation of the cron expression the new object should represent

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - if the string expression cannot be parsed into a valid CronExpression

isSatisfiedBy

public boolean isSatisfiedBy(java.util.Date date)

Indicates whether the given date satisfies the cron expression. Note that milliseconds are ignored, so two Dates falling on different milliseconds of the same second will always have the same result here.

Parameters:

date - the date to evaluate

Returns:

a boolean indicating whether the given date satisfies the cron expression

getNextValidTimeAfter

public java.util.Date getNextValidTimeAfter(java.util.Date date)

Returns the next date/time after the given date/time which satisfies the cron expression.

Parameters:

date - the date/time at which to begin the search for the next valid date/time

Returns:

the next valid date/time

getNextInvalidTimeAfter

public java.util.Date getNextInvalidTimeAfter(java.util.Date date)

Returns the next date/time after the given date/time which does not satisfy the expression

Parameters:

date - the date/time at which to begin the search for the next invalid date/time

Returns:

the next valid date/time

getNextInterval

public long getNextInterval(java.util.Date date)

Return the interval between the next valid date and the one after

Parameters:

date - the date/time at which to begin the search

Returns:

the number of milliseconds between the next valid and the one after

getTimeZone

public java.util.TimeZone getTimeZone()

Returns the time zone for which this CronExpression will be resolved.

setTimeZone

public void setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone timeZone)

Sets the time zone for which this CronExpression will be resolved.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns the string representation of the CronExpression

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a string representation of the CronExpression

isValidExpression

public static boolean isValidExpression(java.lang.String cronExpression)

Indicates whether the specified cron expression can be parsed into a valid cron expression

Parameters:

cronExpression - the expression to evaluate

Returns:

a boolean indicating whether the given expression is a valid cron expression

buildExpression

protected void buildExpression(java.lang.String expression)
                        throws java.text.ParseException

Throws:

java.text.ParseException

protected void setCalendarHour(java.util.Calendar cal,
                   int hour)

Advance the calendar to the particular hour paying particular attention to daylight saving problems.

Parameters:

cal -

hour -

getTimeBefore

protected java.util.Date getTimeBefore(java.util.Date endTime)

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: Returns the time before the given time that the CronExpression matches.

getFinalFireTime

public java.util.Date getFinalFireTime()

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: Returns the final time that the CronExpression will match.