Others may have more experience with this, but it sounds like your
example could be handled with a cron job that periodically checks for
newly registered users. On GAE, you also have the option to use a
task queue.
On Sep 9, 7:05 am, Adi <aditya.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this test case:
>
> 1. User registers in app.
> 2. App sends him greeting email ("Welcome to so-and-so app").
> 3. App adds his email/name etc to mailing application (like Mailchimp)
> for auto-subscribing to newsletter.
>
> Now user expects steps 1 completion to take him to the next 'default/
> index' page, and we don't want steps 2 and 3 to prevent completion of
> step 1. Is there a way to make step 2 and 3 complete independently, in
> a way that user's experience is not slowed down?
>
> Think of it as being equivalent of asynchronous ajax request, which
> doesn't wait for response before moving to the next piece of
> javascript.
>
> Any help on this? I know we should not create threads because web2py
> handles that for us (read in some older post long long ago).
>
> -- Adi
