run azure function or webjob on-premises, but run only once

Question

My scenario is I will want an azure function/webjob to stand by, the request won't ask it to run directly, but will set up a time to run, when it comes to that moment, it will run. Every request may want to run at different time. Is this possible on Azure function or webjob? or I have to implement this scheduler myself.

Answer 1

You can try using either an Azure Storage Queue triggered or an Azure Service Bus triggered function for your scheduled functionality.

The scheduler function would be a HTTP triggered function which parses the payload and schedules a message into a storage queue or service bus queue.

Note that the following details are for C#. For other languages, you will have to use the appropriate SDK instead of the bindings.

• Storage Queues
  You will have to set the initialVisibilityDelay parameter while adding a message using the CloudQueue.AddMessage method.

  You will have to use the queue storage output binding to a CloudQueue object.

• Service Bus
  You can use the Scheduled Messages feature by setting Message.ScheduledEnqueueTimeUtc .

  You will have to use the service bus output binding to a Message object.