Hello all,

I'm trying to call a method in one of my surface controllers from hangfire. But i'm getting a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." exception.

As far as I can read the problem is, that controllers is not made for this.

But what is the right way, if I need to have access to Contentservice in a method, that needs to work as a hangfire cronjob?

An example:

 public void DoSomething()
    {
        //Creating instance of the surface controller
        MailController mail = new MailController();

        RecurringJob.AddOrUpdate(() => mail.SendCSV("test"), Cron.Minutely);
    }

OwinStartup Class:

  public class UmbracoStandardOwinStartup : UmbracoDefaultOwinStartup
{
    public override void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
    {
        //ensure the default options are configured
        base.Configuration(app);

        // Configure hangfire
        var options = new SqlServerStorageOptions { PrepareSchemaIfNecessary = true };
        const string umbracoConnectionName = Umbraco.Core.Constants.System.UmbracoConnectionName;
        var connectionString = System.Configuration
            .ConfigurationManager
            .ConnectionStrings[umbracoConnectionName]
            .ConnectionString;

        GlobalConfiguration.Configuration
            .UseSqlServerStorage(connectionString, options);

        // Give hangfire a URL and start the server                
        app.UseHangfireDashboard("/hangfire");
        app.UseHangfireServer();

        var scheduler = new ScheduleHangfireJobs();
        scheduler.DoSomething();
    }
}