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I'm developing an application that takes advantages of restaurants' dataset. Each week my system will run a CRON job in order to synchronize the restaurants that are available on a public API to my database.

However, how do I draw the sequence diagram for this CRON job? Who is the actor?

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The actor would be some scheduler (or you can use the Cron object if you like). The target would be your Synchronizer object doing all that fancy web scanning.

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You can use a loop fragment to show the repetition. A simple note would do as well :-)

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  • if i were to generalize it, can the Scheduler actor be Web Server? – ericlee Sep 21 '15 at 14:33
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    I thought `Scheduler` to be the most general form :-) Of course you can use a Web Server as actor but in your question you were talking of `cron` which is not a web server at all but some basic OS program. – qwerty_so Sep 21 '15 at 14:38