So I'm expanding my use of the scheduler -- one of the best features of web2py -- and I'm running into a "scaling" problem.
I'm going to have perhaps a hundred little functions that the scheduler inserts into the queue. Now, if I define my little functions in the same Model page as the scheduler, everything works as expected. Each of my functions is like a stub -- it generally provides a call point for the scheduler but then accesses code in a module somewhere. Although each function is kept as small as possible, I'm still loading a large number of little functions with every web page access, activity I would like to avoid. There is a dictionary I can pass to the scheduler which names each of the functions to be used as entries, but then I have to create a dictionary with a large number of entries, each time a web page is called. Again, activity I'd rather avoid in the 99.9999% of web page accesses that don't need or use the scheduler. Plus I'm not sure I can create the dictionary if its functions are scattered across controllers. That would seem unlikely to compile since only one controller is visible at any one pass through the model. What is this dictionary for, and how can I avoid needing it at all? There are only a few comments in the book regarding this topic. Mostly a warning that the "workers must be restarted" if the dictionary changes. (Has anyone noticed that stopping or restarting the workers is never described? I presume this is a console process which makes it outsides the bounds of what I'm looking for.) No matter what I try, unless the function is defined in the same model page as the scheduler, all I get from the scheduler is "NameError: name 'xxxxx' not found in scheduler's environment" even though I specifically test to make sure it is visible when invoking web2py -M -S app/controller/xxxxx How do I scale this up without needing 100 stub functions in a model file along with the scheduler? -- Joe -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
