Auto schedule Django APScheduler

backend/Dockerfile

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ WORKDIR /code
 
 # Install system dependencies
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y git postgresql-client cron \
+    && apt-get install -y git postgresql-client \
     && apt-get clean
 
 # Install Python dependencies
@@ -27,18 +27,6 @@ COPY ./server /code/
 # Collect static files
 RUN python3 manage.py collectstatic --noinput --verbosity 2
 
-# Setup cron to run python3 manage.py worldtravel-seed every day at 00:00
-RUN echo "0 0 * * * python3 /code/manage.py worldtravel-seed --force >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1" > /etc/cron.d/worldtravel-seed
-
-# Give execution rights on the cron job
-RUN chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/worldtravel-seed
-
-# Apply cron job
-RUN crontab /etc/cron.d/worldtravel-seed
-
-# Ensure cron is started in the foreground when the container starts
-CMD ["cron", "-f"]
-
 # Set the entrypoint script
 COPY ./entrypoint.sh /code/entrypoint.sh
 RUN chmod +x /code/entrypoint.sh

backend/server/adventures/apps.py

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 from django.apps import AppConfig
-
+from django.conf import settings
 
 class AdventuresConfig(AppConfig):
-    default_auto_field = "django.db.models.BigAutoField"
-    name = "adventures"
+    default_auto_field = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
+    name = 'adventures'
+
+    def ready(self):
+        if settings.SCHEDULER_AUTOSTART:
+            from .scheduler import start_scheduler
+            start_scheduler()

backend/server/adventures/scheduler.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# scheduler.py
+
+import logging
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
+from django_apscheduler.jobstores import DjangoJobStore
+from django_apscheduler import util
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.management import call_command
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+def run_worldtravel_seed():
+    logger.info("Starting worldtravel-seed job")
+    try:
+        call_command('worldtravel-seed', '--force')
+        logger.info("worldtravel-seed job completed successfully")
+    except Exception as e:
+        logger.error(f"Error in worldtravel-seed job: {str(e)}")
+
+@util.close_old_connections
+def start_scheduler():
+    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler(timezone=settings.TIME_ZONE)
+    scheduler.add_jobstore(DjangoJobStore(), "default")
+
+    scheduler.add_job(
+        run_worldtravel_seed,
+        trigger="interval",
+        hours=24,
+        id="worldtravel_seed",
+        max_instances=1,
+        replace_existing=True,
+    )
+
+    logger.info("Starting scheduler...")
+    scheduler.start()
+    return scheduler

backend/server/main/settings.py

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'adventures',
     'worldtravel',
     'users',
+    'django_apscheduler',
 
 )
 
@@ -71,12 +72,18 @@ MIDDLEWARE = (
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
     'allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware',
-
 )
 
 # disable verifications for new users
 ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'none'
 
+CACHES = {
+    'default': {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
+    }
+}
+
+
 # For backwards compatibility for Django 1.8
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = MIDDLEWARE
 
@@ -230,3 +237,30 @@ from os import getenv
 
 CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = [origin.strip() for origin in getenv('CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS', 'http://localhost').split(',') if origin.strip()]
 DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.AutoField'
+
+LOGGING = {
+    'version': 1,
+    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
+    'handlers': {
+        'console': {
+            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
+        },
+        'file': {
+            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
+            'filename': 'scheduler.log',
+        },
+    },
+    'root': {
+        'handlers': ['console', 'file'],
+        'level': 'INFO',
+    },
+    'loggers': {
+        'django': {
+            'handlers': ['console', 'file'],
+            'level': 'INFO',
+            'propagate': False,
+        },
+    },
+}
+
+SCHEDULER_AUTOSTART = True

backend/server/requirements.txt

@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ python-dotenv
 psycopg2-binary
 Pillow
 whitenoise
-django-resized
+django-resized
+django-apscheduler