I think if I were doing this, I would write a custom management command <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/custom-management-commands/> to update the tables, and run it at system startup time. Management commands are easy to debug and well documented.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 10:38:25 AM UTC-7, Julien Greard wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using Django 1.9.3. I have a project with several apps. I would like > to update the tables of one of the app at the startup of the project. > > I have all the code written, it looks like the following (it's an example): > > from my_app.models import My_table > > def on_startup(): > my_thread = Thread(execute = populate_tables, loopmode = True, > background = True) *# thread running in loopmode in background* > my_thread.start() *# starts the thread and returns* > > def populate_tables() > response = call_webservice() *# let's imagine this method returns > data for creating a new model instance* > My_table(response).save() # this save() isn't threadsafe in this > example, but that's not my point ;-) > > So far, with Django 1.6.5, I came with some code from the __init__.py file > of my app. It was working, but I thought it was quite ugly (starting a > thread with an "import" looks really like hidden code). > > I saw in Django 1.9 the "ready()" method. But it's written in the > documentation to not deal with models in this method so I am confused. > > I could add the startup code in the command starting my server but this > startup code is app oriented and in my opinion, the projects has nothing to > do with my app. > > What do you recommend? > > > I'd be happy to provide more info if needed. > > Thanks in advance, > > Julien Gréard > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/49d4a061-973e-4e54-b99a-383fdbcb2822%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
