I would look into django-celery <https://github.com/ask/django-celery> to do asynchronous tasks. It can also be executed as a webhooks style, see here<http://ask.github.com/celery/userguide/remote-tasks.html> .
Brian On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Elver Loho <elver.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a web app that creates reports that may take up to a > minute to generate. (Or longer under heavy loads.) Ideally I would > like something like this to happen: > > 1. User presses a button on the website. Javascript sends a begin- > report-creation message to the server. > 2. Report creation begins on the server in a separate process and the > called view function returns "ok". > 3. A bit of Javascript checks every ten seconds if the report is done. > 4. If the report is done, another bit of Javascript loads it into the > website for display. > > My question is - what is the best way of forking a separate process in > step 2 to start the actual background report generation while also > returning an "ok" message to the calling Javascript? Or do I even need > a separate process? What sort of concurrency issues do I need to worry > about? > > Reports are currently generated once every hour by a cron-launched > Python script. This is working splendidly. > > Best, > Elver > P.S: Django is awesome! I've only been using it for a couple of days, > but I gotta say, I've never been so productive with any other > framework of any kind. > > -- > 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<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Brian Bouterse ITng Services -- 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.
