The document provides an overview of the Quartz connector for scheduling programmatic events within Mule flows, discussing both inbound and outbound quartz endpoints. It includes examples of using cron expressions for polling files, generating events, and executing HTTP requests at specified intervals. Additionally, it covers creating custom Quartz jobs and provides links to resources for further learning about cron expressions and the Quartz connector.

1. Using Quartz Connector
By Rahul Kumar

2. Prerequisites
Understanding of basic endpoints like http, file etc
Example : http://localhost:8081/app/b
file:///D/invoice/input
Understanding of CRON expressions
A good place to learn CRON expressions is
http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.1.x/tutorials/crontrigger.html

3. Quartz Connector
The Quartz Connector supports the scheduling of programmatic events, both inside and outside your Mule
flow. Through a quartz endpoint, you can trigger flows that don’t depend on receiving any external input to
execute at scheduled times.
For instance, an inbound Quartz endpoint can trigger inbound events, such as temperature reports from a
remote location, at regular intervals.
Outbound Quartz endpoints can delay otherwise imminent events. For example, you can prevent outgoing
email from being sent as soon as it has completed processing in your Mule flow. Instead, you can use
Quartz to delay sending it until the top of the next hour.

4. Inbound Quartz Endpoint
A Quartz inbound endpoint can be used to generate events. It is most useful when you want to trigger a
flow at a given interval (or cron expression) rather than have an external event trigger the flow.
Polling
Creating custom events

5. Polling with Quartz
The below Quartz endpoint polls for files using the “File” endpoint. It polls every 10 seconds starting at
12:15:00 PM everyday till 12:15:50 PM
<file:endpoint name="File" path="./src/main/resources/input" responseTimeout="10000"
doc:name="File"/>
<flow name="quartz-polling-with-incomingfile-in-folder">
<quartz:inbound-endpoint jobName="FilePollingJob" cronExpression="0/10 15 12 * * ?"
responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz" connector-ref="Quartz" repeatInterval="0">
<quartz:endpoint-polling-job>
<quartz:job-endpoint ref="File"/>
</quartz:endpoint-polling-job>
</quartz:inbound-endpoint>
</flow>

6. Example 2
The below Quartz endpoint executes a HTTP GET request to http://localhost:8081/app/b every 30
seconds starting at 11:05:00 AM till 11:05:30 AM
<flow name="quartz-polling-with-http-get-invoke">
<quartz:inbound-endpoint jobName="HTTPPollingJob" cronExpression="0/30 5 11 * * ?" connector-ref="Quartz"
responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz" repeatInterval="0">
<quartz:endpoint-polling-job>
<quartz:job-endpoint address="http://localhost:8081/app/b"/>
</quartz:endpoint-polling-job>
</quartz:inbound-endpoint>
</flow>

7. Generate Events with Quartz
The below Quartz endpoint creates an event which will post Payload “Event from Quartz !! ” every 10
seconds starting at 01:36:00 PM till 01:36:50 PM
<flow name="app7-3Flow1">
<quartz:inbound-endpoint jobName="SimpleEventCreateJob" cronExpression="0/10 36 13 * * ?" repeatInterval="0"
responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz">
<quartz:event-generator-job>
<quartz:payload>Event from Quartz !! </quartz:payload>
</quartz:event-generator-job>
</quartz:inbound-endpoint>
</flow>

8. Outbound Quartz Endpoint
An outbound Quartz endpoint allows existing events to be stored and fired at a later time/date.
Dispatching events
Dispatching custom events

9. Dispatching events with Quartz
Example 1
The below Quartz endpoint Invokes the job endpoint which is file i.e creates file several times according to
CRON expression that is starting at 01:43 PM at interval of 10 seconds till 01:43:50 PM
<file:endpoint path="./src/main/resources/output" name="File-Outbound-Endpoint" responseTimeout="10000"
doc:name="File"/> <flow name="quartz-schedule-dispatch-file">
<http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" path="/app/c" doc:name="HTTP"/>
<set-payload value="#['Payload for Dispatch !']" doc:name="Set Payload"/>
<quartz:outbound-endpoint jobName="FileDispatchJob" cronExpression="0/10 43 13 * * ?" connector-ref="Quartz"
responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz">
<quartz:scheduled-dispatch-job>
<quartz:job-endpoint ref="File-Outbound-Endpoint"/>
</quartz:scheduled-dispatch-job>
</quartz:outbound-endpoint>
</flow>

10. Custom Quartz Job
We can write our own Quartz job by implementing the org.quartz.Job
interface, this allows us to leverage Java to dispatch an event at the
scheduled time
Override the public void execute(JobExecutionContext
jobExecutionContext) throws JobExecutionException; - to define what
should happen when the job fires.
Need to give source in evaluator and name of the created java class in the
expression. This will trigger the execute() function of that class at the cron
specified time.

11. Example of Custom Quartz Job:
package org.rahul.quartz.job;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionException;
public class CustomQuartzJob implements org.quartz.Job{
private String data;
public String getData() {
return data;
}
public void setData(String data) {
this.data = data;
}
@Override
public void execute(JobExecutionContext jobExecutionContext) throws JobExecutionException {
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("D:AnypointStudio-
5.4.3Workspaceapp7srcmainresourcesoutputoutput.txt");
fos.write(this.data.getBytes());
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

12. We have to pass an instance of the created Quartz job and supply it to the Quartz endpoint as evaluator and the fully qualified name
of the created Quartz Job in the expression field. For this example i have passed evaluator from the Payload.
Example Snippet below:
<dw:transform-message doc:name="Transform Message">
<dw:set-payload><![CDATA[%dw 1.0
%output application/java
---
{
data: "Hello from Quartz!!"
} as :object {
class : "org.rahul.quartz.job.CustomQuartzJob"
}]]></dw:set-payload>
</dw:transform-message>
<quartz:outbound-endpoint jobName="customJob1" responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz" cronExpression="0/10 29 12
* * ?">
<quartz:custom-job-from-message evaluator="payload" expression="org.rahul.quartz.job.CustomQuartzJob" />
</quartz:outbound-endpoint>

13. References
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-user-guide/v/3.6/quartz-connector
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-user-guide/v/3.7/quartz-transport-reference