Can't register tasks in django settings file

[chris48s]

Hello.

The documentation in https://github.com/westerveltco/django-q-registry?tab=readme-ov-file#registering-periodic-tasks shows 3 examples. Example 3 suggests that it should be possible to register tasks in a django settings file.

I tried out this example code, but I hit two problems.

Issue 1: Can't import from django_q.models import Schedule in settings file

The documentation suggest putting from django_q.models import Schedule in your settings file so I tried that.

I found that if I put from django_q.models import Schedule at the top of my settings file, then trying to run ./manage.py qcluster fails with the error Unknown command: 'qcluster' and trying to run ./manage.py setup_periodic_tasks fails with the error Unknown command: 'setup_periodic_tasks'.

If I move the line from django_q.models import Schedule down to somewhere after the INSTALLED_APPS declaration, that still doesn't work, but I get the error django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Apps aren't loaded yet instead.

As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem possible to import from django_q.models import Schedule in a django settings file.

However, the only reason I'm trying to import this is so that I can use the value of Schedule.CRON.

So I decided to just press on and see if I could work around this for now by hard-coding

"schedule_type": "C",

(which is the value of Schedule.CRON)
https://github.com/django-q2/django-q2/blob/09e65da5b34b9de152905dec42336d27c8b2116d/django_q/models.py#L191

Doing that resulted in..

Issue 2: KeyError: 'func'

Instead of trying to import Schedule.CRON, I wrote

Q_REGISTRY = {
    "TASKS": [
        {
            "name": "Do The Things",
            "func": "myapp.tasks.do_the_things",
            "kwargs": {},
            "schedule_type": "C",
            "cron": "*/5 * * * *",
        },
    ],
}

Now if I try to start ./manage.py qcluster or ./manage.py setup_periodic_tasks I get KeyError: 'func' in

django-q-registry/src/django_q_registry/registry.py

Lines 96 to 101 in 35e5074

	def _register_settings(self):
	for task_dict in app_settings.TASKS:
	self._register_task(
	func=task_dict.pop("func"),
	**task_dict,
	)

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In the end, I abandoned trying to declare tasks in a settings file and got my application working using the decorator syntax (which does work as expected).

I have confirmed that this behaviour reproduces in a completely clean django app with these packages:

django==5.2.6
django-q2==1.8.0
django-q-registry==0.5.0
blessed==1.20.0
croniter==6.0.0

If you need any more info to reproduce, let me know.