Cancel job whose object the script does not have access to

[Huy-Ngo]

Let's say I ran this script to schedule a job:

var j = schedule.scheduleJob({hour: 14, minute: 30, dayOfWeek: 0}, function(){
  console.log('Time for tea!');
});

Now, I write a new script to cancel the job above, which doesn't have access to the j that I created above, so I can't just j.cancel(). Is there a way that I can cancel the job above?

[Huy-Ngo]

I was thinking about some solution like having j.id saved somewhere then get it back by calling j = schedule.getById('job id here') but I don't know if it's an available feature.

[iiagodias]

I had that in mind, it really is the solution. We could save the ID in the database and cancel it whenever we want.

[peterdanis]

You can access all registered jobs via scheduledJobs object. In my case I use an id as name passed as first parameter to scheduleJob function.

[zoom2009]

You can access all registered jobs via scheduledJobs object. In my case I use an id as name passed as first parameter to scheduleJob function.

You save my life 👯

[Sidahmed02]

This way worked for me. by passing the scheduled job to cancelJob function.

const updateReports = schedule.scheduleJob("*/5 * * * * *", function() {
console.log("Job is working .......");
});

function myFunc(arg) {
console.log("job is going to be canceled..");
schedule.cancelJob(updateReports); //passing job as an argument
}
setTimeout(myFunc, 15000, "funky");

[gustavogialim]

You can access all registered jobs via scheduledJobs object. In my case I use an id as name passed as first parameter to scheduleJob function.

Worked well here, I think the information about the scheduledJobs array should be present on the repository README/Docs.

So other people can save time trying to access the jobs that was already scheduled, what do you guys think?
If you agree I can collaborate on creating a PR changing the README.md