django-background-tasks indefinite run

Question

The docs says,

In Django Background Task, all tasks are implemented as functions (or any other callable).

There are two parts to using background tasks:

creating the task functions and registering them with the scheduler
setup a cron task (or long running process) to execute the tasks

It appears there is no way to run django-background-tasks indefinitely and periodically, is that correct?

Answer 1

If I am understood correctly then You want to execute your tasks periodically without using cron.

You can do using django celery( https://github.com/celery/django-celery ) or Task Master ( https://github.com/dcramer/taskmaster )

Hope you are wanting this.

Answer 2

you can run the task indefinitely with the repeat like this.

task_method(repeat=300)

this task will repeat every 300 secconds you can check the docs here https://django-background-tasks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#repeating-tasks