golem-schedule-future-call-scala

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Scheduling a future agent invocation in a Scala Golem project. Use when the user asks about delayed invocations, scheduling calls for later, or timed agent execution.

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Scheduling a Future Agent Invocation (Scala)

Overview

A scheduled invocation enqueues a method call on the target agent to be executed at a specific future time. The call returns immediately; the target agent processes it when the scheduled time arrives.

Usage

Each method on the remote proxy has a .scheduleAt(when) method that enqueues the call for the given time:

import golem.Datetime

val counter = CounterAgentClient.get("my-counter")

// Schedule increment to run 5 seconds from now
counter.increment.scheduleAt(Datetime.afterSeconds(5))

// Schedule with arguments — method params first, then when
val reporter = ReportAgentClient.get("daily")
reporter.generateReport.scheduleAt(
  "summary",
  when = Datetime.afterSeconds(3600) // 1 hour from now
)

Datetime Helper

The golem.Datetime type provides helper methods:

import golem.Datetime

Datetime.afterSeconds(60)     // 60 seconds from now
Datetime.afterSeconds(3600)   // 1 hour from now

Cancelable Variant

Every method also has a scheduleCancelableAt variant that returns a Future[CancellationToken]. Call .cancel() on the token to prevent the scheduled invocation from firing:

import golem.runtime.rpc.CancellationToken

val token: CancellationToken = Await.result(
  counter.increment.scheduleCancelableAt(Datetime.afterSeconds(60)),
  Duration.Inf
)

// Later, to cancel the pending invocation:
token.cancel()

Use Cases

Periodic tasks: Schedule the next run at the end of each invocation
Delayed processing: Process an order after a cooling-off period
Reminders and notifications: Send a reminder at a specific time
Retry with backoff: Schedule a retry after a delay on failure