Question: scheduler jobs with intervals smaller than a second?

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Question: scheduler jobs with intervals smaller than a second?

ubiteixeira opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Hi I was trying to add jobs with sub second intervals interval=0.1, with no success. Analyzing the code I found the interval value is being converted to an int (scheduler.py in line 207)

job.meta['interval'] = int(interval)

Is there any reason for this int conversion further the number validation? I tried to removed the conversion and everything worked as expected.

job.meta['interval'] = interval

Thanks in advanced

Adam Patterson · Answer 1 · Fri Mar 29 2019 07:08:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Not really a direct answer to your question, but if you need a subsecond job, you would be better served by a different tool. cron won't even do less than a minute IIRC.

ubiteixeira · Answer 2 · Mon Apr 01 2019 15:09:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @adamrt thanks for your answer.

The point is that is possible to schedule subsecond jobs with the rq-scheduler if other validation is performed on the job.meta['interval']. I was only wondering if there is any reason for this int conversion further than number validation.