Trying to run a function as a schedule and also trigger on demand about flask-apscheduler HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks Christopher, will try this out.

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Can you give your job an id, and then check the jobstore for the id's status before running? Setting the max instances to 1 should prevent the scheduler from running the chron job at the same time as a user triggering the job.

https://apscheduler.readthedocs.io/en/3.x/userguide.html#adding-jobs

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That would be a way to prevent my manual job from running. However, the piece I need to figure out is, for the manual job, I want to run an existing scheduler job on demand. So that if the scheduled job runs, it see's a job was already started... for example...

0 mins - SpeedTest runs on schedule
5 mins - SpeedTest runs on schedule
10 mins - SpeedTest runs on schedule
14 mins - SpeedTest run manually from UX
15 mins - SpeedTest runs on schedule, see's a manual start of the same job already running and therefore doesn't run.

I need something like

scheduler.job('jobid').run()

So I can start a scheduled job whenever, irrespective of the schedule.

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To run a function on demand you can submit it as a "one off" job with the current time as the start time.
https://apscheduler.readthedocs.io/en/3.x/modules/triggers/date.html#module-apscheduler.triggers.date

You will have one function that setups the cron/interval job, and one function for the one-off run.
Both will call the same function and have the same id. When the job is manually triggered, before sending it to the scheduler you could check the id. I'm not 100% sure what the max instances will do when you try to add more than one (will it queue them or just ignore it?) > you can find in the docs, it is possible that the max instances will solve all the problems.

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