@stonyx/cron 0.2.1-alpha.17 → 0.2.1-alpha.18

package/README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ When a job is executed, its next trigger time is updated, and it is re-inserted
 |  `register`  | `key: string, callback: Function, interval: number, runOnInit?: boolean` | Register a new job with a given interval in seconds. If `runOnInit` is true, the job runs immediately upon registration. |
 | `unregister` |                               `key: string`                              | Remove a previously registered job.                                                                                      |
 
+> Callbacks are invoked fire-and-forget: `Cron` never waits for one to settle. Two *different* jobs that fall due on the same tick may therefore overlap, and a job that is still running when it next falls due is skipped for that tick (a warning is logged). Both synchronous throws and asynchronous rejections are caught and logged; neither can stop the scheduler.
+
 > `MinHeap` is also exported as a public subpath (`@stonyx/cron/min-heap`) and can be imported directly for advanced usage.
 
 ## Configuration

package/dist/main.d.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ interface CronJob extends HeapItem {
     callback: () => void | Promise<void>;
     interval: string;
     key: string;
+    /**
+     * Timestamp (ms) at which the current invocation started; `undefined` when the
+     * job is idle. Mirrors `job.state.runningAtMs` in the service tier
+     * (`src/job.ts` `markRunning`/`applyResult`/`isDue`).
+     */
+    runningAtMs?: number;
+    /**
+     * True once a skip has been reported for the *current* invocation. Bounds the
+     * still-running warning to one line per stuck run instead of one per tick.
+     */
+    skipReported?: boolean;
 }
 export default class Cron {
     static instance: Cron | null;
@@ -13,8 +24,37 @@ export default class Cron {
     init(): Promise<void>;
     scheduleNextRun(): void;
     runDueJobs(): Promise<void>;
+    /**
+     * The one safe way this class invokes a consumer callback.
+     *
+     * Never blocks the caller, catches synchronous throws and asynchronous
+     * rejections alike, and skips the invocation entirely when the job's previous
+     * invocation has not settled yet (fire-and-forget would otherwise let a slow
+     * job stack invocations on itself).
+     */
+    safeInvoke(job: CronJob, runOnInit?: boolean): void;
+    /**
+     * Report a scheduler-level message without ever letting the logger's own
+     * failure reach the caller.
+     *
+     * `@stonyx/logs` convenience methods return a promise and write to disk
+     * through an unguarded `mkdirSync` + `fsp.appendFile`. On a read-only or full
+     * log volume that promise rejects; an unobserved rejection raised from inside
+     * the handler that exists to prevent unhandled rejections would re-create
+     * exactly the defect this class was fixed for (measured: exit code 1).
+     */
+    report(level: 'error' | 'warn', message: string): void;
+    /** Release a job's in-flight guard. Only ever called for the job it belongs to. */
+    release(job: CronJob): void;
     register(key: string, callback: () => void | Promise<void>, interval: string, runOnInit?: boolean): void;
     unregister(key: string): void;
+    /**
+     * Parse a job interval (whole seconds, as a string) into a positive integer.
+     *
+     * Returns `null` when the value cannot be parsed at all, so callers can choose
+     * between failing fast (`register`) and falling back (`setNextTrigger`).
+     */
+    parseInterval(interval: string): number | null;
     setNextTrigger(job: CronJob): void;
     log(text: string, key?: string | null): void;
 }

package/dist/main.js

@@ -17,6 +17,28 @@ import config from 'stonyx/config';
 import log from 'stonyx/log';
 import { getTimestamp } from '@stonyx/utils/date';
 import MinHeap from './min-heap.js';
+/**
+ * Floor for a job interval, in whole seconds.
+ *
+ * `runDueJobs` no longer awaits the callback, so `next.nextTrigger > now` is the
+ * drain loop's only exit condition *and* the loop has no suspension point left.
+ * An interval that fails to advance `nextTrigger` therefore spins the loop
+ * forever and blocks the event loop, rather than merely scheduling too often.
+ */
+const MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 1;
+/**
+ * Render an unknown thrown value as log text.
+ *
+ * `@stonyx/logs` reads a second argument as `logToFile`, not as a format
+ * argument, so `log.error(message, err)` discards the error entirely *and*
+ * forces a disk write on every failure. The error has to be interpolated into
+ * the message instead — the shape `CronService.executeJob` already uses.
+ */
+function describeError(err) {
+    if (err instanceof Error)
+        return err.stack ?? `${err.name}: ${err.message}`;
+    return String(err);
+}
 export default class Cron {
     static instance;
     jobs = {};
@@ -55,18 +77,117 @@ export default class Cron {
             const job = heap.pop();
             if (config.debug)
                 this.log('job has been triggered', job.key);
-            try {
-                await job.callback();
-            }
-            catch (err) {
-                log.error(`Cron job "${job.key}" failed:`, err);
-            }
+            // Reschedule *before* invoking. The callback's result is not used by this
+            // class (`runDueJobs` returns void), so awaiting it bought nothing and
+            // cost the scheduler: a callback that never settled left the job absent
+            // from the heap and stopped the timer from ever re-arming.
             this.setNextTrigger(job);
             heap.push(job);
+            this.safeInvoke(job);
         }
         this.scheduleNextRun();
     }
+    /**
+     * The one safe way this class invokes a consumer callback.
+     *
+     * Never blocks the caller, catches synchronous throws and asynchronous
+     * rejections alike, and skips the invocation entirely when the job's previous
+     * invocation has not settled yet (fire-and-forget would otherwise let a slow
+     * job stack invocations on itself).
+     */
+    safeInvoke(job, runOnInit = false) {
+        const { key } = job;
+        const context = runOnInit ? 'failed on init:' : 'failed:';
+        // The in-flight guard lives on the job object, not in a module-level set
+        // keyed by string. That is what gives each invocation an identity: the only
+        // thing that ever clears the flag is the settle handler of the invocation
+        // that set it, and that handler closes over this exact job object. A stale
+        // handler therefore cannot release a *later* invocation's guard. It also
+        // matches the in-repo idiom one tier up (`job.state.runningAtMs`).
+        //
+        // `unregister` needs no explicit clear as a result: the flag is dropped with
+        // the job object, so a re-registered key gets a fresh object and runs
+        // immediately, while the abandoned invocation can only ever release itself.
+        if (job.runningAtMs !== undefined) {
+            // Bounded: one line per stuck run, not one per tick. A permanently hung
+            // job is re-pushed and re-skipped every interval forever, which at the
+            // 1s interval this class's own tests use is ~86k log lines a day, per job
+            // — a disk-fill and ingest-cost vector on any deployment capturing stdout.
+            if (!job.skipReported) {
+                job.skipReported = true;
+                const runningForSeconds = Math.max(0, Math.round((Date.now() - job.runningAtMs) / 1000));
+                this.report('warn', `Cron job ${JSON.stringify(key)} is still running after ${runningForSeconds}s; skipping this `
+                    + 'tick and any further ticks until it settles (this warning is not repeated for this run)');
+            }
+            return;
+        }
+        job.runningAtMs = Date.now();
+        job.skipReported = false;
+        try {
+            const result = job.callback();
+            if (result && typeof result.then === 'function') {
+                Promise.resolve(result)
+                    .catch((err) => {
+                    // Braces matter: returning `report`'s value would put it back into
+                    // the chain, and `.finally` passes a rejection straight through.
+                    this.report('error', `Cron job ${JSON.stringify(key)} ${context} ${describeError(err)}`);
+                })
+                    .finally(() => { this.release(job); })
+                    // Backstop: a throw inside the error handler or the release must not
+                    // re-create the unhandled rejection this helper exists to prevent.
+                    .catch(() => { });
+                return;
+            }
+            this.release(job);
+        }
+        catch (err) {
+            this.release(job);
+            this.report('error', `Cron job ${JSON.stringify(key)} ${context} ${describeError(err)}`);
+        }
+    }
+    /**
+     * Report a scheduler-level message without ever letting the logger's own
+     * failure reach the caller.
+     *
+     * `@stonyx/logs` convenience methods return a promise and write to disk
+     * through an unguarded `mkdirSync` + `fsp.appendFile`. On a read-only or full
+     * log volume that promise rejects; an unobserved rejection raised from inside
+     * the handler that exists to prevent unhandled rejections would re-create
+     * exactly the defect this class was fixed for (measured: exit code 1).
+     */
+    report(level, message) {
+        try {
+            const result = level === 'error' ? log.error(message) : log.warn(message);
+            void Promise.resolve(result).catch(() => { });
+        }
+        catch {
+            // Nowhere left to report to; the logger must never stop the scheduler.
+        }
+    }
+    /** Release a job's in-flight guard. Only ever called for the job it belongs to. */
+    release(job) {
+        job.runningAtMs = undefined;
+        job.skipReported = false;
+    }
     register(key, callback, interval, runOnInit = false) {
+        const seconds = this.parseInterval(interval);
+        // Fail fast rather than clamp. An unparseable interval is a programming
+        // error with exactly one likely cause — a cron expression handed to the
+        // legacy class, which takes whole seconds — and clamping it would silently
+        // run a job intended for every 5 minutes once per second, hammering whatever
+        // the callback talks to. Throwing surfaces it at the call site, at boot,
+        // before anything is scheduled. A degenerate-but-parseable interval (`'0'`,
+        // `'-5'`) is a different case: it is interpretable as "as often as possible"
+        // and is clamped to the floor with one warning.
+        if (seconds === null) {
+            throw new TypeError(`Cron job ${JSON.stringify(key)} has an invalid interval ${JSON.stringify(interval)}: `
+                + 'expected whole seconds (e.g. \'30\'). The legacy Cron class does not accept cron '
+                + 'expressions — use CronService for those.');
+        }
+        if (parseInt(interval, 10) < MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS) {
+            this.report('warn', `Cron job ${JSON.stringify(key)} interval ${JSON.stringify(interval)} is below the `
+                + `${MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS}s floor; clamping to ${MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS}s`);
+        }
         const job = { callback, interval, key, nextTrigger: 0 };
         this.jobs[key] = job;
         this.setNextTrigger(job);
@@ -74,14 +195,8 @@ export default class Cron {
         if (config.debug) {
             this.log(`job has been registered with interval: ${interval}`, key);
         }
-        if (runOnInit) {
-            try {
-                callback();
-            }
-            catch (err) {
-                log.error(`Cron job "${key}" failed on init:`, err);
-            }
-        }
+        if (runOnInit)
+            this.safeInvoke(job, true);
         this.scheduleNextRun();
     }
     unregister(key) {
@@ -95,8 +210,24 @@ export default class Cron {
             this.log('job has been unregistered', key);
         this.scheduleNextRun();
     }
+    /**
+     * Parse a job interval (whole seconds, as a string) into a positive integer.
+     *
+     * Returns `null` when the value cannot be parsed at all, so callers can choose
+     * between failing fast (`register`) and falling back (`setNextTrigger`).
+     */
+    parseInterval(interval) {
+        const seconds = parseInt(interval, 10);
+        if (!Number.isFinite(seconds))
+            return null;
+        return Math.max(MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS, seconds);
+    }
     setNextTrigger(job) {
-        job.nextTrigger = getTimestamp() + parseInt(job.interval, 10);
+        // `register` rejects an unparseable interval up front; this floor is the
+        // backstop for a job object mutated after registration (`cron.jobs` is
+        // public, mutable state) and is what actually guarantees the drain loop
+        // terminates. Never let `nextTrigger` land on `NaN` or on `now`.
+        job.nextTrigger = getTimestamp() + (this.parseInterval(job.interval) ?? MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS);
     }
     log(text, key = null) {
         if (!config.cron?.log)

package/dist/service.d.ts

@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ interface ExecuteResult {
     summary?: string;
     durationMs?: number;
     deleted?: boolean;
-    /** Only set when `status` is `'skipped'`. */
-    reason?: 'not due' | 'already running' | 'removed';
+    reason?: string;
 }
 interface ServiceStatus {
     started: boolean;
@@ -79,41 +78,7 @@ export default class CronService {
     armTimer(): void;
     onTimer(): Promise<void>;
     findDueJobs(nowMs: number): Job[];
-    /**
-     * Execute a job in three phases:
-     *
-     *   1. claim  (locked)   - take ownership of the job, detach it from the heap
-     *   2. invoke (UNLOCKED) - await the consumer callback
-     *   3. settle (locked)   - apply the result, log it, re-insert into the heap
-     *
-     * The critical section deliberately excludes phase 2. `onJobDue` is
-     * arbitrary, unbounded consumer code; awaiting it under the module-global
-     * lock is what wedged every subsequent `locked()` call (add/update/remove)
-     * when a callback never settled.
-     *
-     * `alreadyClaimed` is passed by `onTimer`, which performs the batch claim
-     * (findDueJobs + markRunning) for all due jobs under a single lock.
-     */
-    executeJob(job: Job, alreadyClaimed?: boolean): Promise<ExecuteResult>;
-    /**
-     * Phase 1 - claim. Must be called while holding the lock.
-     *
-     * Returns `null` on a successful claim, or the reason the claim was refused.
-     * "already running" is what makes a second `run()` report a skip instead of
-     * launching a concurrent invocation. "removed" covers the job being deleted
-     * between `run()`'s unlocked lookup and this lock turn - claiming then would
-     * `markRunning` an orphan and, worse, `removeFromHeap` an id that may now
-     * belong to a replacement.
-     *
-     * Detaching from the heap here (rather than relying on phase 3 to push a
-     * fresh entry) is what keeps manual runs from permanently duplicating heap
-     * entries.
-     */
-    claimJob(job: Job): 'already running' | 'removed' | null;
-    /**
-     * Phase 3 - settle. Must be called while holding the lock.
-     */
-    settleJob(job: Job, status: string, error: string | undefined, summary: string | undefined, startMs: number, durationMs: number): ExecuteResult;
+    executeJob(job: Job): Promise<ExecuteResult>;
     removeFromHeap(id: string): void;
     log(message: string): void;
 }

package/dist/service.js

@@ -12,24 +12,6 @@ import { locked } from './locked.js';
 import { normalizeJobInput, recoverFlatParams } from './normalize.js';
 import RunLog from './run-log.js';
 const MAX_TIMER_DELAY_MS = 60_000;
-/**
- * Describe a thrown value without ever throwing.
- *
- * `String(err)` is not total: a null-prototype object, or any object whose
- * `toString`/`Symbol.toPrimitive` throws, raises "Cannot convert object to
- * primitive value". Consumer callbacks throw arbitrary values, so the error
- * handler itself must not be a second failure source.
- */
-function describeError(err) {
-    if (err instanceof Error)
-        return err.message;
-    try {
-        return String(err);
-    }
-    catch {
-        return 'unknown error';
-    }
-}
 export default class CronService {
     jobs;
     heap;
@@ -162,10 +144,6 @@ export default class CronService {
         if (mode === 'due' && !isDue(job, Date.now())) {
             return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'not due' };
         }
-        // Deliberately NOT wrapped in locked(): executeJob takes the lock itself
-        // for its claim and settle phases only. Wrapping here would re-create the
-        // wedge through a second door, since the callback would again be awaited
-        // while a lock is held.
         return this.executeJob(job);
     }
     /**
@@ -194,42 +172,16 @@ export default class CronService {
         }
         this.running = true;
         try {
-            // Phase 1 - claim (locked). Collecting due jobs pops them off the heap
-            // and marking them running makes them un-collectable by anyone else, so
-            // both must happen under the same lock.
-            const dueJobs = await locked(() => {
+            await locked(async () => {
                 const nowMs = Date.now();
-                const due = this.findDueJobs(nowMs);
-                for (const job of due) {
+                const dueJobs = this.findDueJobs(nowMs);
+                for (const job of dueJobs) {
                     markRunning(job);
                 }
-                return due;
-            });
-            // Phases 2 and 3 run outside the claim lock. The consumer callback is
-            // awaited here holding no lock at all, so a callback that never settles
-            // cannot poison the lock chain.
-            for (const job of dueJobs) {
-                try {
-                    await this.executeJob(job, true);
-                }
-                catch (err) {
-                    // One job's unexpected throw must not abort the batch. Every job in
-                    // `dueJobs` is already claimed - marked running and detached from the
-                    // heap - and only its own settle releases it, so aborting here would
-                    // strand every sibling permanently un-due.
-                    //
-                    // This is the outermost handler on the timer path, so it is the one
-                    // that must not be able to throw. `log()` is public, overridable and
-                    // can reach a file transport, so its own failure is swallowed here
-                    // rather than being allowed to take the batch down.
-                    try {
-                        this.log(`Job "${job.name}" (${job.id}) execution failed unexpectedly: ${describeError(err)}`);
-                    }
-                    catch {
-                        // Nothing left to report to.
-                    }
+                for (const job of dueJobs) {
+                    await this.executeJob(job);
                 }
-            }
+            });
         }
         finally {
             this.running = false;
@@ -250,152 +202,50 @@ export default class CronService {
         }
         return due;
     }
-    /**
-     * Execute a job in three phases:
-     *
-     *   1. claim  (locked)   - take ownership of the job, detach it from the heap
-     *   2. invoke (UNLOCKED) - await the consumer callback
-     *   3. settle (locked)   - apply the result, log it, re-insert into the heap
-     *
-     * The critical section deliberately excludes phase 2. `onJobDue` is
-     * arbitrary, unbounded consumer code; awaiting it under the module-global
-     * lock is what wedged every subsequent `locked()` call (add/update/remove)
-     * when a callback never settled.
-     *
-     * `alreadyClaimed` is passed by `onTimer`, which performs the batch claim
-     * (findDueJobs + markRunning) for all due jobs under a single lock.
-     */
-    async executeJob(job, alreadyClaimed = false) {
-        // -- Phase 1: claim (locked) --
-        if (!alreadyClaimed) {
-            const refusal = await locked(() => this.claimJob(job));
-            if (refusal)
-                return { status: 'skipped', reason: refusal };
-        }
-        // Membership re-check. The claim and the invoke are no longer in the same
-        // critical section, and sibling callbacks run unlocked, so a `remove()` can
-        // land in between AND RESOLVE - it used to deadlock. A resolved `remove()`
-        // must keep meaning "this callback will not fire": settleJob's identity
-        // guard only cleans up afterwards, by which point the side effect has
-        // already happened. Identity, not id, so a removed-then-replaced key is
-        // caught too. Deliberately synchronous with the `onJobDue` call below -
-        // nothing can interleave between this check and the invocation.
-        if (this.jobs.get(job.id) !== job)
-            return { status: 'skipped', reason: 'removed' };
+    async executeJob(job) {
         const startMs = Date.now();
         let status = 'ok';
         let error;
         let summary;
-        let settled;
-        // The claim above marked the job running and detached it from the heap.
-        // Phase 3 is the ONLY thing that undoes either, so it must survive every
-        // non-local exit from phase 2 - including a throw from the catch handler
-        // itself. A claim with no matching settle is not a degraded state, it is a
-        // permanently dead job: `runningAtMs` set, no heap entry, `isDue` false
-        // forever and `run()` refused forever.
         try {
-            // -- Phase 2: invoke (NOT locked) --
-            try {
-                if (this.onJobDue) {
-                    const result = await this.onJobDue(job);
-                    if (result) {
-                        status = result.status || 'ok';
-                        error = result.error;
-                        summary = result.summary;
-                    }
+            if (this.onJobDue) {
+                const result = await this.onJobDue(job);
+                if (result) {
+                    status = result.status || 'ok';
+                    error = result.error;
+                    summary = result.summary;
                 }
             }
-            catch (err) {
-                status = 'error';
-                error = describeError(err);
-                this.log(`Job "${job.name}" (${job.id}) failed: ${error}`);
-            }
         }
-        finally {
-            // -- Phase 3: settle (locked) --
-            settled = await locked(() => this.settleJob(job, status, error, summary, startMs, Date.now() - startMs));
+        catch (err) {
+            status = 'error';
+            error = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+            this.log(`Job "${job.name}" (${job.id}) failed: ${error}`);
         }
-        return settled;
-    }
-    /**
-     * Phase 1 - claim. Must be called while holding the lock.
-     *
-     * Returns `null` on a successful claim, or the reason the claim was refused.
-     * "already running" is what makes a second `run()` report a skip instead of
-     * launching a concurrent invocation. "removed" covers the job being deleted
-     * between `run()`'s unlocked lookup and this lock turn - claiming then would
-     * `markRunning` an orphan and, worse, `removeFromHeap` an id that may now
-     * belong to a replacement.
-     *
-     * Detaching from the heap here (rather than relying on phase 3 to push a
-     * fresh entry) is what keeps manual runs from permanently duplicating heap
-     * entries.
-     */
-    claimJob(job) {
-        if (this.jobs.get(job.id) !== job)
-            return 'removed';
-        if (job.state.runningAtMs)
-            return 'already running';
-        markRunning(job);
-        this.removeFromHeap(job.id);
-        return null;
-    }
-    /**
-     * Phase 3 - settle. Must be called while holding the lock.
-     */
-    settleJob(job, status, error, summary, startMs, durationMs) {
-        try {
-            const validStatus = (status === 'ok' || status === 'error' || status === 'skipped') ? status : 'error';
-            applyResult(job, validStatus, error, durationMs);
-            // The callback ran unlocked, so this job may have been removed - or
-            // removed and re-registered under the same id (the shape
-            // `start(initialJobs)` uses) - while it was in flight. Identity, not id.
-            //
-            // Deliberately touch NOTHING here. The claim phase already detached this
-            // job's own heap entry and nothing re-added it, so there is nothing to
-            // clean up; any entry now filed under this id belongs to the
-            // replacement, and removing it by id would silently unschedule a live
-            // job. Do not resurrect a removed job's heap entry or run log either.
-            if (this.jobs.get(job.id) !== job) {
-                return { status, error, summary, durationMs };
-            }
-            // Log the run
-            this.runLog.record({
-                jobId: job.id,
-                status,
-                error,
-                summary,
-                runAtMs: startMs,
-                durationMs,
-                nextRunAtMs: job.state.nextRunAtMs,
-            });
-            // Handle one-shot auto-delete. The callback ran unlocked and may have
-            // pushed a heap entry for this job via update(), so drop it - the job is
-            // about to stop existing.
-            if (job.deleteAfterRun && status === 'ok' && !job.enabled) {
-                this.jobs.delete(job.id);
-                this.removeFromHeap(job.id);
-                this.runLog.removeJob(job.id);
-                return { status, summary, deleted: true };
-            }
-            // Re-insert into heap if still active. The callback ran unlocked, so it
-            // may itself have added a heap entry for this job (via add/update); drop
-            // any such entry first to preserve one-entry-per-key.
-            this.removeFromHeap(job.id);
-            if (job.enabled && job.state.nextRunAtMs) {
-                this.heap.push({ key: job.id, nextTrigger: job.state.nextRunAtMs });
-            }
-            return { status, error, summary, durationMs };
+        const durationMs = Date.now() - startMs;
+        const validStatus = (status === 'ok' || status === 'error' || status === 'skipped') ? status : 'error';
+        applyResult(job, validStatus, error, durationMs);
+        // Log the run
+        this.runLog.record({
+            jobId: job.id,
+            status,
+            error,
+            summary,
+            runAtMs: startMs,
+            durationMs,
+            nextRunAtMs: job.state.nextRunAtMs,
+        });
+        // Handle one-shot auto-delete
+        if (job.deleteAfterRun && status === 'ok' && !job.enabled) {
+            this.jobs.delete(job.id);
+            this.runLog.removeJob(job.id);
+            return { status, summary, deleted: true };
         }
-        finally {
-            // One re-arm covering every exit, rather than one per branch. The claim
-            // phase detached this job from the heap, so a timer that fired during the
-            // unlocked invoke would have found an empty heap and armed nothing -
-            // and `run()` has no `finally { armTimer() }` of its own the way
-            // `onTimer` does. Without this a manual run() can leave the scheduler
-            // with no pending wake at all.
-            this.armTimer();
+        // Re-insert into heap if still active
+        if (job.enabled && job.state.nextRunAtMs) {
+            this.heap.push({ key: job.id, nextTrigger: job.state.nextRunAtMs });
         }
+        return { status, error, summary, durationMs };
     }
     // -- Helpers ---------------------------------------------------------
     removeFromHeap(id) {
@@ -416,19 +266,6 @@ export default class CronService {
     log(message) {
         if (!config.cron?.log)
             return;
-        // `log.cron` is created by `log.defineType`, which runs in `Cron.init()`
-        // (src/main.ts) - a DIFFERENT class. A consumer wiring CronService directly
-        // never runs it, while `config/environment.js` defaults `cron.log` to true,
-        // so an unguarded call throws `log.cron is not a function`. That throw
-        // escapes executeJob's catch, and the error-reporting path must never be
-        // the thing that kills the scheduler. `src/types/stonyx.d.ts:19` declares
-        // `cron()` unconditionally, so the type system will not catch this.
-        const { logColor = '#888', logMethod = 'cron' } = config.cron ?? {};
-        if (typeof log[logMethod] !== 'function')
-            log.defineType(logMethod, logColor);
-        const method = log[logMethod];
-        if (typeof method !== 'function')
-            return;
-        method.call(log, `Cron — ${message}`);
+        log.cron(`Cron — ${message}`);
     }
 }

package/package.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "keywords": [
     "stonyx-module"
   ],
-  "version": "0.2.1-alpha.17",
+  "version": "0.2.1-alpha.18",
   "description": "Cron/job scheduler for Stonyx framework",
   "main": "dist/main.js",
   "types": "dist/main.d.ts",