Question

I am using quartz.net to schedule regular events within asp.net mvc application.

The scheduled job should call a service layer script that requires a UrlHelper instance (for creating Urls based on correct routes (via urlHelper.Action(..)) contained in emails that will be sent by the service).

I do not want to hardcode the links into the emails – they should be resolved using the urlhelper.

The job:

public class EvaluateRequestsJob : Quartz.IJob
{
    public void Execute(JobExecutionContext context)
    {
        //  where to get a usable urlHelper instance?
        ServiceFactory.GetRequestService(urlHelper).RunEvaluation();
    }
}

Please note that this is not run within the MVC pipeline. There is no current request being served, the code is run by the Quartz scheduler at defined times.

How do I get a UrlHelper instance usable on the indicated place?

If it is not possible to construct a UrlHelper, the other option I see is to make the job “self-call” a controller action by doing a HTTP request – while executing the action I will of course have a UrlHelper instance available – but this seems a little bit hacky to me.

Answer 1

How about just creating a new HttpContext for the UrlHelpler as in this answer: