Celery Send Email on Due_date

Question

Sending email to the users based on the due date in model using the celery, the due_date is something different from date when a task is created

Models.py

class Task(BaseModel):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    due_date = models.DateField(blank=True, null=True)

Answer 1

@shared_task
def send_email():
    today = datetime.now()
    tasks = Task.objects.filter(due_date__date=today)
    for task in tasks:
        # Send email task

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