Hi, I was wondering if I could use prefect for object methods. My use case would be that instead of creating a thread that runs inside the object every 60 seconds, I could create a scheduled flow for the object. But is this even possible? And how would the deployment file look?
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Bianca Hoch
08/02/2022, 9:01 PM
Hello Maximillian, thanks for reaching out. I'm not 100% I understand your use case here. What do you mean by object methods?
Bianca Hoch
08/02/2022, 9:09 PM
Are you referring to an object oriented programming approach like this user?
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Maximilian Schnieder
08/03/2022, 8:50 AM
If I understand it correctly, yes. I for example have a class called "Job Manager" who is instanciated as an object and inside there are methods that could be solved as tasks. The problem is, that I can not use prefect inside an object, because it seems that it can not handle the self reference very well.
Maximilian Schnieder
08/03/2022, 7:47 PM
The problem is, that prefect also wants to receive self, but this does not work. Alternatively I could just use static methods...
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Bianca Hoch
08/04/2022, 1:48 PM
Understood, I agree with Jeff that this would be an interesting route to explore in the future. I'd encourage you to open an issue in our GitHub talking about your use case.