Async in scheduled jobs

[avazon]

Can a scheduled job be async?
From the sample developer module created "ExecuteJob" is overridden and is not async. There is a "ExecuteAsync" in HostedService base but if am correct this is more internal than meant to be used from modules.
I have a need for using HttpClient in a job and normally use async functions. The sample project/job for collecting Github statistics is similar but there it uses Getawaiter and is not async.
Anyone else has thoughts or experience around this?

[sbwalker]

@avazon The HostedServiceBase would need to include support for an async method (note the change from abstract to virtual methods which is a non-breaking change):

ie.

    // one of the following methods must be overridden
    public virtual string ExecuteJob(IServiceProvider provider)
    {
        return "";
    }

    public virtual Task<string> ExecuteJobAsync(IServiceProvider provider)
    {
        return Task.FromResult(string.Empty);
    }

and in the ExecuteAsync() method:

    notes += ExecuteJob(scope.ServiceProvider);
    notes += await ExecuteJobAsync(scope.ServiceProvider);

I think async support is a good idea for scheduled jobs

[sbwalker]

@avazon async support included in #3160 (which will be in next release)

[avazon]

Thank you