execute a code at a particular date and time (aperidic task) in django

[Rini Michael]

Hi,

i am looking for a way where i can execute a task at a particular date and time, i tried apscheduler for this purpose but i am finding some difficulty while integerating with django. can anyone help me with this

the flow is

user will specify a particular date and time through GUI --> submit --> the task will be executed at the particular date and time the user mentioned

i have tried the following in django (Apscheduler approach)

import time

from datetime import datetime

from apscheduler.scheduler import Scheduler

import os

def func1(self,exec_date):

    from_time = datetime.datetime.strptime("2014-05-29 13:56:59",'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

    self.exec_date = datetime.datetime ( from_time.year,from_time.month,from_time.day,from_time.hour,from_time.minute)

    return exec_date

sched = Scheduler()

sched.start()

def my_job(test,exec_date):

    print test

    os.system("python C://Python27/Lib/idlelib/tim.py")

job = sched.add_date_job(my_job,exec_date, ['hello'])

the issue i am facing is the input that the user gives (date n time) is in forms.py ,i have written the code for apscheduler in views.py and i call the function through urls.py but the code doesn't really seem to work,can anyone suggest me how apscheduler works with django or guide me with some links which give information about that

Thanks in advance

Thanks and regards 

Rini

[Malcolm Box]

The canonical answer to this is to use Celery, which provides a task queue for any background/scheduled tasks you want to use.

It's pretty easy to get set up, and works well.

Malcolm

[Rini Michael]

Hi Malcolm

Thanks for your reply,i have been looking into celery as well,but i found that celery is used for periodic task and i am looking to execute aperiodic task.please correct me if i am wrong

Thanks in advance

[Javier Guerra Giraldez]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Rini Michael <rinzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply,i have been looking into celery as well,but i found
> that celery is used for periodic task and i am looking to execute aperiodic
> task.please correct me if i am wrong

check the T.apply_async(eta=<datetimeobject>) option [1]


[1]: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/calling.html#id3

--
Javier

[Rini Michael]

Thank you Javier

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