Native task/function scheduling

[Harshal6927]

Recently I had a requirement in my Django project were I had to run a function every 24 hours (specifically at 1 AM), I used Celery but their docs page was down; it was really frustrating to make it work. So I am suggesting adding this feature to Starlite.

Some key points:

• It should not effect main thread, however the task/function will be executed by main thread.

My proposed example:

@shedule(invoke=2, at_utc=["09:12:00"], offset="+5:30")
def foo():
    ...

invoke: int = 1
at_utc: list[str]
offset: str = None

• This code snippet will run 2 times at 09:12:00.
• Offset is optional argument which can be use to change the default UTC time zone.
• When there is multiple time stings in at_utc list ie at_utc=["09:12:00", "11:02:42"] the function will be called/invoked at those two different time, in other words, it will run total of 4 times (2 times at 09:12:00 and 2 times at 11:02:42)

[Harshal6927]

The format of time string in at_utc will be in HH:MM:SS

[provinzkraut]

I don't think this should be a functionality native to Starlite. This is a very complex thing, we'd just be re-inventing the wheel and there's really not much that can be integrated with Starlite. The example you posted for instance is just an alternative way of describing a task. There's other scheduling libraries out there aside from Celery, and a library like that is what you really want to use.

The only thing that could be useful I think would be an integration for development environments, so you don't have to start worker processes manually.

[Harshal6927]

Got it