Set up a scheduled job?

Question

I\'ve been working on a web app using Django, and I\'m curious if there is a way to schedule a job to run periodically.

Basically I just want to run through the dat

Answer 1

For simple dockerized projects, I could not really see any existing answer fit.

So I wrote a very barebones solution without the need of external libraries or triggers, which runs on its own. No external os-cron needed, should work in every environment.

It works by adding a middleware: middleware.py

import threading

def should_run(name, seconds_interval):
    from application.models import CronJob
    from django.utils.timezone import now

    try:
        c = CronJob.objects.get(name=name)
    except CronJob.DoesNotExist:
        CronJob(name=name, last_ran=now()).save()
        return True

    if (now() - c.last_ran).total_seconds() >= seconds_interval:
        c.last_ran = now()
        c.save()
        return True

    return False


class CronTask:
    def __init__(self, name, seconds_interval, function):
        self.name = name
        self.seconds_interval = seconds_interval
        self.function = function


def cron_worker(*_):
    if not should_run("main", 60):
        return

    # customize this part:
    from application.models import Event
    tasks = [
        CronTask("events", 60 * 30, Event.clean_stale_objects),
        # ...
    ]

    for task in tasks:
        if should_run(task.name, task.seconds_interval):
            task.function()


def cron_middleware(get_response):

    def middleware(request):
        response = get_response(request)
        threading.Thread(target=cron_worker).start()
        return response

    return middleware

models/cron.py:

from django.db import models


class CronJob(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=10, primary_key=True)
    last_ran = models.DateTimeField()

settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'application.middleware.cron_middleware',
    ...
]