app/worker.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from flask import Flask
 from misc import currDay, datetime, time, timedelta
 from db import db, Period, Event
 from create_events import createEvents
-from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BlockingScheduler
 
 basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
@@ -18,20 +18,18 @@ app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] =\
 app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
 db.init_app(app)
 
-# Calculate the next time the function should run (at the :59 mark of the next hour)
+# Define function to run create_events with app context
-now = datetime.now()
+def run_create_events():
-next_hour = now.replace(hour=now.hour + 1, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
+    with app.app_context():
-next_run = next_hour - timedelta(minutes=1)
+        createEvents(db, currDay, Period, Event)
-
-# Create scheduler and add job to call createEvents at the specified time
-scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
-scheduler.add_job(createEvents, 'date', run_date=next_run, args=[db, currDay, Period, Event])
-scheduler.start()
 
 # Call createEvents on initial launch of the script
-with app.app_context():
+run_create_events()
-    createEvents(db, currDay, Period, Event)
 
-# Keep the program running indefinitely
+
-while True:
+# Set up scheduler to run function at 59th minute of every hour
-    time.sleep(60)
+scheduler = BlockingScheduler()
+scheduler.add_job(run_create_events, 'cron', minute=59)
+
+# Start scheduler
+scheduler.start()