有没有一种方法可以运行Google App引擎的cron任务，而不用碰到端点，而是将cron.yaml指向python脚本？

Question

my end goal is to update Google cloud storage with some json data and I would rather it run a script rather than hitting a url endpoint. What would be the proper configuration of cron.yaml if, let's say the script were to sit right next to app.yaml?

Answer 1

A cron job in GAE has to hit a URL, there's no other way to do it. That's just how the system is designed.

But since you have control over app.yaml anyway, you can easily assign your script to a URL there.

Answer 2

From the documentation :

You cannot call a Google Cloud Endpoint from a cron job. Instead, you should issue a request to a target that is served by a handler that's specified in your app's configuration file or in a dispatch file. That handler then calls the appropriate endpoint class and method.

However (from the same documentation),

A cron job will invoke a URL, using an HTTP GET request, at a given time of day. An HTTP request invoked by cron can run for up to 10 minutes, but is subject to the same limits as other HTTP requests.

If you set up the Routing in main.py to use a script right next to it and app.yaml, it would be called. If that's what you call an endpoint, then that's what gets called.