Thanks for answering, I think I'm going to go with 'A' too. Guilherme I've had already looked after django-cron but don't know why but it doesn't seem to work well, I've tried to increment a simple counter in the database every 30 seconds and it doesn't work(using the development server with django 1.1.1.). Also I don't see features there to execute a job only once or to kill it.
On django-jits all their sites seem to be offline : "Page "InstallAndConfig" Not Found", and looking at the comments on the first and only issue/ticket it seems to be an abandoned and not finished project. So it isn't a reliable solution. And django-notification is not the thing I'm looking for because it seems to be just for sending notifications to a user in the moment. So I'm still looking for a solution with better performance and less overhead than 'A'. Creecode what do you mean with "custom management commands"? I just wrote a simple python script that can be called from bash like this python myscript.py, inside it I set up the enviroment to be able to call my models and perform actions using the simplicity of the django webframework. There I just check the entries on my cron-db table, and if its time I perform the corresponding action (maybe having a type field defining actions like sendmail or delete_account). On 14 dic, 12:30, Guilherme Cavalcanti <guiocavalca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tim, recently I've used the solution A too. > > Take a look on these plugins: > > http://code.google.com/p/django-cron/http://code.google.com/p/django-jits/http://github.com/jtauber/django-notification/blob/master/docs/usage.txt > > Pay attention specially on django-jits, it uses a little different > approach based on your argument (threads). > > Excuse my bad english. > > On Dec 12, 7:58 pm, Tim Daniel <redarrow...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Just want to figure out if there is a smarter solution for handling > > the following problem: > > > 1. An action is performed by a user (Normal django behaviour handling > > a request and giving a response). > > 2. Two hours later I want an automatic action to be done. > > > Solution A: Have a datetime field with an expiry date and say every 10 > > minutes a cron job checks the DB table for expired entries and > > performs the programed action. > > > Solution B: Have an event triggered cronjob that only executes once > > and is created from Django(Python), after the 2 hours passed it > > performs the programmed action only on the required entry. > > > So how can I implement solution B? Is there a posibility to create a > > cron on a user action that executes only one time? > > > NOTE: I don't want to rely on a thread that should stay alive for two > > hours ore more inside the server memory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
