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.
