saito200S
Convex Community•2y ago•
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saito200

How to use the result of a scheduled action?

My mutation schedules an action using await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(0, ...)

The action returns a value that then is used by the mutation to write to the DB, or that's what I planned

Pseudocode:
myMutation = mutation({
  handler: async (ctx) => {
    const res = await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(0, ..run action..)
    // write res to DB
  }
})


But this is not how it works, right? Because the return value of a scheduled action is a promise that resolves to a Id<"_scheduled_functions">

So it looks like I have to schedule the action, and from the action itself run an internal mutation that writes the output of the action to the DB, i.e.:

1. Run public mutation
2. Schedule action
3. Action gets some external data
4. Action runs internal mutation to write to DB

Is that second way the "correct way"?
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