Can we force run the jobs in APScheduler job store?

Question

Using APScheduler version 3.0.3. Services in my application internally use APScheduler to schedule & run jobs. Also I did create a wrapper class around the actual APScheduler(just a façade, helps in unit tests). For unit testing these services, I can mock the this wrapper class. But I have a situation where I would really like the APScheduler to run the job (during test). Is there any way by which one can force run the job?

Answer 1

There is no default trigger to launch a job immediately, to achieve this you can get the current time and set a DateTrigger to the job like this:

my_job.modify_job(trigger=DateTrigger(run_date=datetime.datetime.now()))

this way you will "force" the job to run, but you have to make sure to insert the job again in the scheduler, another option is just creating a new job to run the same function with the add_job function

sched.add_job(func=your_function(),
              trigger=DateTrigger(run_date=datetime.datetime.now()))

this way you don't have to do any additional step.