I have a view (start_job_view) in Django that should trigger a very long process. I'd like the view to return immediately and add a message to the user ("your job has started" using the message framework) and I'd like that when the long process terminates it sends a new message to the user ("your job has finished").

How can I do this?

Note: I am not keen to add Celery to my project for this only task...

CodePudding user response：

One option is to use async view. You can have more details over here

Another can be creating a celery task and calling it in your view.

CodePudding user response：

You can use in-memory queue which runs on separate thread. Take a look at segment library code, which merge/process events in bg thread here.

Note that in case your server get terminated due to any reason you have mechanism to id job failed and retry.