[TYPO3-dev] Scheduler and Saving Task State

[Jeff Segars]

I've just started using the scheduler in 4.3 for the first time and 
overall its been a very pleasant experience.  There is one area where 
I'm getting stuck, however.

In my task, I need to track a couple small variables that may change 
from one run to the next (ie. the last time an update was actually 
pulled from a remote server with changed data). I expected these would 
be saved when the task was serialized and available again on the next 
run, but instead I always have the default values.

This appears to be due to tx_scheduler->executeTask() which runs 
$task->save() prior to $task->execute. Is this the intended behavior? If 
so, I guess the best option is to just write my data somewhere else for 
saving rather than expecting my task to be persistent.

Any advice from Francois or others?

Thanks!
jeff