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As far as I can understand, the way to add a job is to set it up in your extension as an API.

So I have created the default code using 

 civix generate:api --schedule=Daily Contact myendpoint

Enabled the extention and it appears in the API Explorer

But when I run it

cv api Contact.myendpoint debug=1

it fails

{ "error_code": "not-found", "entity": "Contact", "action": "myendpoint", "trace": "#0 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/Civi/API/Kernel.php(166): Civi\\API\\Kernel->resolve(Array)\n#1 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/Civi/API/Kernel.php(100): Civi\\API\\Kernel->runRequest(Array)\n#2 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/api/api.php(23): Civi\\API\\Kernel->runSafe('Contact', 'myendpoint', Array, NULL)\n#3 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/REST.php(311): civicrm_api('Contact', 'myendpoint', Array)\n#4 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/REST.php(548): CRM_Utils_REST::process(Array, Array)\n#5 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php(275): CRM_Utils_REST::ajax()\n#6 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php(84): CRM_Core_Invoke::runItem(Array)\n#7 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Core/Invoke.php(52): CRM_Core_Invoke::_invoke(Array)\n#8 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.php(1246): CRM_Core_Invoke::invoke(Array)\n#9 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): CiviCRM_For_WordPress->invoke('')\n#10 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters('', Array)\n#11 /var/www/html/wp-includes/plugin.php(453): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)\n#12 /var/www/html/wp-admin/admin.php(224): do_action('toplevel_page_C...')\n#13 {main}", "is_error": 1, "error_message": "API (Contact, myendpoint) does not exist (join the API team and implement it!)" }

So it looks like I'm missing a step somewhere - but can't find it in the docs .. any help?

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    Can you check if api(api/v3Contact/Myendpoint.php) file has been created in your extension folder? – Pradeep Nayak May 18 '18 at 13:27
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OK I found out what I did wrong

the help message gives

Usage:                                                                                                                                                       
  generate:api [options] [--] \EntityName>> \ActionName>>                                                                                                    

Arguments:                                                                                                                                                   
<EntityName>               The entity against which the action runs (eg 
"Contact", "MyEntity")                                                             
...

Being new to this I followed the instructions and typed

civix generate:api    \Contact \myendpoint

Which works without complaint, and puts the end point in the explore ... but doesn't work.

interestingly 

civix generate:api    Contact \myendpoint

does work - it is the backslash before Contact that breaks things.

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  • Great. I am used to the command civix generate:api --schedule Daily Entity Action Without any slashes. – Jaap Jansma - CiviCooP May 18 '18 at 15:45
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@Alan

you are right - to setup a schedule job you need to create an API and then you need to add that API in your JOBS folder -

But you are trying both together - this is the correct syntax 

civix generate:api NewEntity NewAction

First create your extension folder - then cd extensionfolder

Then run the above code to generate an API

Then you need to create an entry in civicrm_job table - this can be done through SQL or in the front end

Refer: https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/extensions/civix/#generate-api

I guess this helps !!!!

Thanks

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  • I started from scratch - I was trying to build the API in a existing extension with reports and queries in it. For some reason ( that I can't get to the bottom of ) is in the reports extension it didn't work ( generated some different files ), but starting as a brand new extension was fine .. – Alan Fuller May 18 '18 at 13:59
  • I guess your old extension wasn't build using Civix then - try to move the API folder from your newly created extension it should work – Ramesh - ARTECH Consultancy May 18 '18 at 14:02
  • With civix you can create an api and in one go a scheduled job with it. So no need to do SQL etc... – Jaap Jansma - CiviCooP May 18 '18 at 15:44
  • @Ramesh You used a really old link - I've updated it with the current one. Doc links now should be to docs.civicrm.org – Aidan♦ May 18 '18 at 19:07

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