Extending Default Entities

This feature is available exclusively through the extension package: TickerQ.EntityFrameworkCore.

Customizing CronTicker & TimeTicker

You can extend the default ticker entities by creating your own classes that inherit from CronTicker and TimeTicker, and then adding custom properties as needed.

public class MyCronTicker : CronTicker 
{
    public string MyProperty { get; set; }
}

public class MyTimeTicker : TimeTicker 
{
    public string MyProperty { get; set; }
}

Registering Custom Tickers

To apply the custom entities, register them in your AddTickerQ setup:

services.AddTickerQ(options =>
{
    options.AddOperationalStore<MyDbContext, MyTimeTicker, MyCronTicker>();
});

After registering, generate the required schema updates by creating a migration:

PM> Add-Migration "InitialCreate" -c MyDbContext

Notes on Schema

Default Behavior

By default, Ticker entities are stored in the schema: Ticker. You can override or extend the schema and table mappings using standard EF Core configuration techniques.

Customize your tickers to include domain-specific metadata, flags, or categorization logic for more advanced background job behavior.