Delay or wait process

[arvindnsn]

Hello,

I have a requirement where a snap has to wait for n amount of seconds before it executes. The n amount of seconds varies based on the output of the previous snap. How do I carry the output of a variable from a previous snap and pass it as the number of seconds to wait for the following snap.

Thanks
Aravind N

[JensDeveloper]

Hi @arvindnsn

I don’t think there is a snap cabaple of doing that but You can find more info about a script some peoplse use on these two topics.

• Feature Request: Add delay, wait or sleep snap
• How to make a Pipeline wait during execution
  The second one is a shorter solution

Regards

[arvindnsn]

Is there a way to send a variable from the previous snap to the script Snap instead of hardcoding the seconds to sleep.

below script says time.sleep(120), instead can we pass a parameter like time.sleep($sleep_time), where $sleep_time carries the number of seconds from the previous mapper.

[arvindnsn]

The second one seems to be shorter and i was able to provide variables to sleep time instead of hardcoding the seconds. Thanks you!

[bojanvelevski]

Hey @arvindnsn

Check out this post:

Email Snap batch or delay between sending each message