Django Background Tasks autodiscovery not working

Question

I have configured background tasks in my Django App according to docs. The structure of my app is as follows:

todo_app
    |
    task
    |   |
    |   models, tests, urls, admin, apps
    |
    |
    frontend
    |       |
    |       tasks.py
    |       |
    |       models, tests, urls, admin, apps
    |
    manage.py
    |
    |todo_app
            |
            settings, urls, wsgi etc

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
  ...
'background_task',
  ...
]
BACKGROUND_TASK_RUN_ASYNC = True

tasks.py:

from background_task import background

@background(schedule=1)
def task_runner(repeat=3):
    print("hello world")

python manage.py process_tasks runs the task when the method is invoked under some view. The issue is that if its invoked under a view it will be invoked way too many times and the repeat will unnecessarily overload.

What mistake am I making under the auto discovery? Is it necessary to manually invoke the method even after running python manage.py process_tasks? Thank you.

Answer 1

Then you need to run a daily job to hard delete tasks deleted more than 14 days ago. You have 3 options to do that:

• Write your own django command and add it manually to a crontab on the server.

• Use django-cron

• Use django-crontab