Implementing scheduled services in Sitefinity 3.x

In this post I will show you how to create scheduled services that could be executed on a certain period of time - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc. The post will expose web service that runs a Sitefinity search index. The implementation requires

1.Creating a web service in Sitefinity

2. Creating a console application that will be used to call the service

3. Using Windows Task Scheduler.

Creating a web service.

WebService

Leave the generated asmx in projet's root.
Make sure that the generated class is located in App_Code folder

In the WebMethod I'm adding getting all services using IndexDataManager object. Then I am looping through all indexes and if the name of the index that I am going to pass exists in the IndexingServiceInfo I run the index programmatically using IndexingService object

    using System;  
 using System.Collections.Generic;  
 using System.Linq;  
 using System.Web;  
 using System.Web.Services;  
 using Telerik.Search;  
 using Telerik.Search.Data;  
 using System.Collections;  
 using Telerik.Search.Engine;  
   
 /// <summary>   
 /// Summary description for IndexingService   
 /// </summary>   
 [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]  
 [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]  
 // To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.    
 // [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]   
 public class IndexingService : System.Web.Services.WebService  
 {  
   
     public IndexingService()  
     {  
   
         //Uncomment the following line if using designed components    
         //InitializeComponent();    
     }  
   
     [WebMethod]  
     public void StartIndex(string indexName)  
     {  
         IndexDataManager dataManager = new IndexDataManager();  
         IList indexes = dataManager.GetServices();  
         IndexingServiceInfo indexServiceInfo = null;  
         foreach (IndexingServiceInfo service in indexes)  
         {  
   
             if (service.Name == indexName)  
             {  
                 indexServiceInfo = service;  
                 break;  
             }  
         }  
         if (indexServiceInfo != null)  
         {  
             Telerik.Search.Engine.IndexingService service =  
                 new Telerik.Search.Engine.IndexingService(indexServiceInfo);  
             int timeout = this.Context.Server.ScriptTimeout;  
             this.Context.Server.ScriptTimeout = 4800;  
             service.Index(false);  
             this.Context.Server.ScriptTimeout = timeout;  
         }  
         else  
         {  
             throw new ApplicationException("not found name");  
         }  
     }  
 }  
  

Creating Console Application

Create the console application

ConsoleApplication

Add Web reference to the WebService that is located in Sitefinity website

Implement the logic in the console application to call the WebService method, pass the name of the index and finally run it.

    namespace IndexConsoleApplication  
 {  
     class Program  
     {  
         static void Main(string[] args)  
         {  
             StartIndex("RunFromConsole");  
         }  
         public static void StartIndex(string indexName)  
         {  
             IndexingService client = new IndexingService();  
             client.StartIndex(indexName);  
             Console.Write("the website was indexed at" + DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().ToString());  
             Console.Write("next index is scheduled for" + DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().AddDays(1).ToString());  
             Console.Read();  
         }  
     }  
 }   
  