KickOffService #17789

	# I'm using heroku for serving the live audience (app in playstore, see readme for link)
	# Since I'm running on a free-tire mode heroku will shutdown the app after some amount of inactivity.
	# so user logging in during that time have to face atleaset one api call failure before proceeding, which is causing bad experience.
	# hence created this action to invoke my backend every 5 minute to keep the service alive.

	name: KickOffService

	# Controls when the workflow will run
	on:
	# Triggers the workflow every 30 minute
	schedule:
	- cron: "/45 * * *"

	# Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
	workflow_dispatch:

	# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
	jobs:
	# This workflow contains a single job called "build"
	invoke_backend_server:
	# The type of runner that the job will run on
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	env:
	PROD_URL: ${{ secrets.PROD_URL }}
	# Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
	steps:
	- name: Invoke backend
	run: \|
	echo "Begin launch service"
	num_of_hit=1;
	while [ $num_of_hit -le 5 ]; do
	http_status=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}" ${{env.PROD_URL}})
	if [ "$http_status" = 200 ]; then
	echo "Success hit_index = $num_of_hit"
	break;
	else
	echo "Failure hit_count = $num_of_hit"
	fi
	((num_of_hit++));
	echo "wait for 5 seconds before invoking the server again."
	sleep 5
	done
	echo "End launch service."

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