Best regards,
Cloud Tasks are asynchronous by design. As you mentioned, the best way would be to pair them with Cloud Scheduler.
First of all, since cloud Scheduler needs either a Pub/Sub or an HTTP endpoint, to call once it runs the jobs, I recommend to you to create an App Engine handler, to which the Cloud Scheduler will call, that creates and sends the task.
You can do so by following this documentation. First of all you will have to create a queue, and afterwards I recommend you to deploy simple application that has a handler to create the tasks. A small example:
from google.cloud import tasks_v2beta3
from flask import Flask, request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/createTask', methods=['POST'])
def create_task_handler():
client = tasks_v2beta3.CloudTasksClient()
parent = client.queue_path('YOUR_PROJECT', 'PROJECT_LOCATION', 'YOUR_QUEUE_NAME')
task = {
'app_engine_http_request': {
'http_method': 'POST',
'relative_uri': '/handler_to_call'
}
}
response = client.create_task(parent, task)
return response
Where the 'relative_uri' is the handler that the task will call, and processes your data.
Once that is done, follow the Cloud Scheduler documentation to create jobs, and specify the target to be App Engine HTTP, set the URL to '/createTask', the service to whichever is handling the URL, and the HTTP method to POST. Fill the rest of parameters as required, and you can set the Frequency to 'every monday 09:00'.
