Azure-docs: Timer trigger testing?

[rgwood]

It would be really useful to have a section that explains how to test timer-triggered functions. It's not clear what the best way to do so is.

My use case involves timer triggers that run infrequently (say, once a day at 8PM). During development, I often want to run the function once to test that it's working correctly. I can deploy to test or run it locally as-is, but then I have to wait until 8PM for it to run. I could tweak the cron expression to run the function more frequently in non-production environments, but that's also not ideal. Is there a better way?

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• Content: Testing Azure Functions
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[rgwood]

My bad, I see that this has already been covered by #6926. Feel free to close (although it would be nice to cover this in the documentation, and eventually have a less awkward way of testing timer triggered functions).

[mimckitt]

Thanks for the feedback! I have assigned the issue to the content author to investigate further and update the document as appropriate.

[tdykstra]

@rgwood Per your comment above, we'll go ahead and #please-close

[Edit] After linking to the new wiki page I realized it doesn't address your question. Here's the link anyway:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Investigating-and-reporting-issues-with-timer-triggered-functions-not-firing

[tdykstra]

@rgwood See also this documentation on using the admin API to trigger a function by using an HTTP request: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-run-local#non-http-triggered-functions

[rgwood]

Thanks, the admin API looks like it will do the trick! Might be worth adding a mention of that to the Testing functions page when you have time.

[craigshoemaker]

@rgwood I just published Manually run a non HTTP-triggered function. I hope this helps address what you are trying to do 😉

[rgwood]

Very helpful, thanks!

[kieran-flaherty]

@tdykstra Just what I was looking for, thanks!