[FEATURE] I'd like to schedule a workflow to run at a specific time

We frequently see use cases arise for scheduling one-time jobs at a specific timestamp. For example, you may want to send your users an email exactly 2 hours after they sign up - you need a way to schedule a specific message, at a specific timestamp. You could send a message to this service using a format like:

{
  "timestamp": "2020-08-21T04:29:00.951Z",
  "message": { "name": "Luke", "email": "[e-mail]" }
}

Note: you can run a task scheduling service like this in your own AWS account, and have it trigger a Pipedream workflow, using this Pipedream event source.

[dylburger]

@nachocab I can confirm and we’re looking into it.

[dylburger]

@nachocab currently test events for event sources are hardcoded globally, and aren’t source-specific. Since that payload isn’t of the format the task scheduler expects, and since the HTTP request is made to the / path and not the /schedule path, that test event isn’t expected to work.

Just to confirm, if you send a request of the right format to the /schedule path, does that work?

We want to support test events that are bespoke to a given source, which should make this experience better in the future.