Re: Timeout when saving model in django admin page

On Tuesday 21 February 2017 13:11:19 John, Steffen wrote:

 

> Using celery, is it possible to prevent the user from doing other

> things in the admin tool until the celery task is done?

 

Sorta kinda.

But the django admin can facilitate part of it. Look into the ModelAdmin.has_FOO_permission() methods. These get passed the request. So you could implement something like:

 

- set has_job_running on User profile model

- for possibly dangerous actions, return false for the has_FOO_permission() method if request.user.profile.has_job_running is True.

- on job end, reset the user's has_job_running flag.

 

You can refine this to a tee, with different completion stages for the job opening up otherwise denied actions, etc etc.

 

The timeout however, is something with your webserver / wsgi implementation and you should look there. For example, nginx has several timeouts for handling a WSGI request that come into play. Increasing those, also means you tie up resources and are more succeptable to denial of service, so if celery is an option, take it.

 

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Melvyn Sopacua