Rufus supports many scheduler requests that a cron line cannot express. The [http_poller](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-http_poller/blob/7dba5d1c90f0474d4d2a02dc404925f8d449a60c/lib/logstash/inputs/http_poller.rb#L178) supports this by passing the schedule value to the appropriate handler using public_send. This would be useful for the jdbc input.