my django-background-task does nothing, even if I just ask it to do something simple like printing a string. I dont know what I am doing wrong though.
views.py:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib import messages
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib.auth.forms import PasswordChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth import update_session_auth_hash
from .forms import UserRegistrationForm
from .models import Player, PlayerStats, TotalLevels
from django.core import management
from background_task import background
import random
# background task
@background(schedule=5)
def play_run():
print('it works!')
# management.call_command('runscript', 'runnerscript')
def random_logo():
logo = random.randint(1, 5)
logo_file = 'logo-nav'+str(logo)+'.png'
return logo_file
# Main website views
def home(request):
return render(request, template_name='main/home.html')
# bloxors website specific views
def homepage(request):
logo_file = random_logo()
return render(request, template_name='bloxors/homepage.html', context={'logo':logo_file})
# view in which background task is called
@login_required
def play_redirect(request):
play_run()
return HttpResponse('Please wait while we redirect you...')
Can someone help me by telling what is going wrong?
As always, I appreciate any and all answers!
While the server is running, open another terminal or command prompt with your virtual environment activated then run python manage.py process_tasks