Suggest me where to use threading timer in django project.

Question

I'm working on developing a online bidding application (my project). where clients post their bidding price to server. the highest bidder wins the bidding.

my current approach:
planning on using a timer that triggers a function (bidding_stop()) which stops the bidding and checks for highest bidder and announces the winner.

My question is where to place this timer. so that it will trigger that operation (bidding_stop()) after a pre-set time from the start of server.
Project name is "Bidding_proj" and has one app "bid_app" and rest are default.

Answer 1

thanks for your support @Slick

Answer 2

Use datetime, and then set the bidding_stop() after however long

Answer 3

i don't get it why you suggest using datetime...

Answer 4

idk mabey cause it uses time? and you can time stuff with time. cause you are making a timer. It wouldnt matter where you place it if you just start it when the server starts and reset when the time was done. i dont get why you wouldn't use it

Answer 5

If you want to use a timer then you can use JavaScript setTimeout and send an ajax request to django to stop bidding.