Extending Helper Class

[JWhiteSS]

It would be nice to have the ability to easily extend the helper class.

In my case, I cannot write to the file system. Instead, I would extend Helper's acquireLock(), releaseLock(), & getLockLifetime() functions to make them read / write to a table.

BackgroundJob accepts a third parameter for the helper class, but run-job does not pass anything for that parameter.

My alternative is to extend Jobby to make the property 'script' a different script that would do the same thing as run-job, but pass BackgroundJob a new Helper class. Is this the route you would recommend?

[hellogerard]

@creativebum2 That sounds right to me. You would need to wrap all locking queries in a transaction to ensure you don't get multiple jobs accessing the same lock at once. You could also make it an abstraction to support different databases e.g. mysql, pgsql, etc.