Allow for the disabling of scheduled tasks in the configuration. Default to false.

communicator/scheduler.py

@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ from communicator.api import admin
 
 def update_and_notify():
     with app.app_context():
-        admin.update_and_notify()
+        if app.config['RUN_SCHEDULED_TASKS']:
+            admin.update_and_notify()
+        else:
+            app.logger.info("Currently not running scheduled tasks RUN_SCHEDULED_TASKS"
+                            " is set to false in configuration.")
 
 scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
 scheduler.add_jobstore('sqlalchemy', url=db.engine.url)
 scheduler.add_job(
     update_and_notify, 'interval', minutes=app.config['SCHEDULED_TASK_MINUTES'],
-#    update_and_notify, 'interval', seconds=5,
     id='update_data', replace_existing=True
 )
 

config/default.py

@@ -75,4 +75,5 @@ TWILIO_NUMBER =  environ.get('TWILIO_NUMBER')
 FIRESTORE_JSON = environ.get('FIRESTORE_JSON')
 
 # Scheduled tasks
-SCHEDULED_TASK_MINUTES = float(environ.get('SCHEDULED_TASK_MINUTES', default=10))
+SCHEDULED_TASK_MINUTES = float(environ.get('SCHEDULED_TASK_MINUTES', default=1))
+RUN_SCHEDULED_TASKS = environ.get('RUN_SCHEDULED_TASKS', default="false") == "true"