This sounds like a good candidate for an async Celery task: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/index.html
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Timothy W. Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, this isn't likely a Django specific question but since this > project is built in Django, I'd like to know how best to handle this > issue. > > I have a view that calls a function and performs a long running > process. It reads and processes a file, creating potentially > thousands of objects and can take up to several minutes to complete. > > Right now it just displays a pretty much blank template. This isn't > very user friendly. I imagine some kind of counter or progress bar > but I am not certain how best to display this via Django. > > What do others do in this case? > > Thanks, > Tim > > > > -- > MLHIM VIP Signup: http://goo.gl/22B0U > ============================================ > Timothy Cook, MSc +55 21 94711995 > MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org > Like Us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/mlhim2 > Circle us on G+: http://goo.gl/44EV5 > Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/MMZ1o > LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2B%3DOU3WXxamXh3avPc%2BmW0yWHJERPACsvvLErx9T8OJc%3D5tsUA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Jonathan D. Baker Developer http://jonathandbaker.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAPMFOb4M7BSndCdN3N0STgwiN%2BA%2BbAZ5f80OkqBtLB1xosfr7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

