There are multiple ways to schedule a job in the Django rest framework but APScheduler is one of the simplest and best ways to implement scheduling in Django.
So in this blog, we will be learning about how to schedule jobs in the Django rest framework with their types and which type is preferable for which tasks and advantages.
We have divided APScheduler learning into some points as below
To use APScheduler we need to install an external library, APScheduler is a library with the latest version 3.6.3.
Command to install this library in Django, we need to use the following command
pip install APSchedular
APScheduler is a library that lets you schedule your job or particular task to be executed later, either just once or periodically APScheduler mainly has four component as below
Depending on what you’ll be using APScheduler for and the programming environment you are using we need to choose a scheduler
I will be using the BackgroundScheduler for this tutorial, as I wanted the task to run as a background process inside a Django server.
In Implementation, I will be using the BackgroundScheduler for this tutorial, so First, we need to import the APScheduler and also need to assign require type as below
from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
After importing and assigning APScheduler we need to schedule a particular job as below
def our_job(self):
print(“Job triggering method”)
scheduler.add_job(self.our_job, 'date', run_date=send_time, args=[],id=’’id1”)
In the above method we have used the add_job scheduling method to schedule a job so in this method we need to pass some arguments, first argument in add_job method is our job method that we need to run so we have added our_job method so after that we also need to mention the running type in run_date argument and also we can pass the arguments to our_job method in args argument of add_job and also for identifying a particular job we also need to add id to every job, so in future, if we require to stop the particular job or update particular job then id argument will help.
Now our job is running in the background so in the next point we will see how to see a list of running jobs and reschedule particular jobs and many events.
There are different method in APScheduler and depending upon our use we need to use these methods and methods are listed below
scheduler.get_jobs (jobstore=None, pending=None)
scheduler.reschedule_job(job_id, run_date=send_time)
scheduler.get_job(job_id)
scheduler.shutdown()
scheduler.pause()
scheduler.resume()
In this tutorial, we learned about what is an APScheduler with its types, the implementation of APScheduler, and also methods used in APScheduler. How can we use an APScheduler in our project.
from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
def our_job(self):
print(“Job triggering method”)
def scheduling_method(self):
scheduler.add_job(self.our_job, 'date', run_date=send_time, args=[],id=’’id1”)
scheduler.get_jobs (jobstore=None, pending=None)
def rescheduling_method(self):
scheduler.reschedule_job(“id1”, run_date=send_time)
scheduler.get_jobs (jobstore=None, pending=None)
Rishikesh is a Full-stack developer with 3+ years of experience. He has experience in web technologies like AngularJS, ReactJS. His expertise is building Python integrated web applications, creating REST APIs with well-designed, testable and efficient and optimized code. He loves to learn new technologies.
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