creating a unique job

[kpradeepkumarreddy]

what happens if a job with same Id already exists ? I want to have only job with the same Id. when i try to add a new job with same Id then the old job should be replaced with new one .

How can i create a job with unique Id ? Is there anything like setUnique(true) for a job ?

[kalpeshp0310]

You can create a Single Instance Job using singleInstanceBy(String instanceId). have a look at Single Instance Jobs section.

Note: You need second job to replace older job. but library will cancel second job if there is a job in queue with same instanceId, instead of replacing it.

[kpradeepkumarreddy]

I'm using the following piece of code to ensure that a job is not running with same id. Is this the correct way to do it ?

JobStatus jobStatus = Jobmanager.getJobStatus("ID");
 if (jobStatus.ordinal() == JobStatus.UNKNOWN.ordinal()) {
          Jobmanager.addJob(new Job());
  }

[kalpeshp0310]

Yeah, this approach also works. Only thing to note is that you have to run this code on non main thread, other wise it may cause UI jank.

[kpradeepkumarreddy]

Thanks.