# Background Tasks - `BackgroundTasks`

You can declare a parameter in a *path operation function* or dependency function with the type `BackgroundTasks`, and then you can use it to schedule the execution of background tasks after the response is sent.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import BackgroundTasks
```

        .build();

    final long startNanos = System.nanoTime();
    final Call call = client.newCall(request);

    // Schedule a job to cancel the call in 1 second.
    executor.schedule(() -> {
      System.out.printf("%.2f Canceling call.%n", (System.nanoTime() - startNanos) / 1e9f);
      call.cancel();

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"
    labels:
      - "@dev-productivity"
      - "a:chore"
      - "in:building-gradle"
  - package-ecosystem: "gradle"
    open-pull-requests-limit: 0
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "daily"
    labels:
      - "@dev-productivity"
      - "a:chore"

name: Issue Manager

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "13 22 * * *"
  issue_comment:
    types:
      - created
  issues:
    types:
      - labeled
  pull_request_target:
    types:
      - labeled
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  issue-manager:
    if: github.repository_owner == 'fastapi'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

name: Upgrade to latest wrapper

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 4 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  upgrade-latest-wrapper:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    if: github.repository == 'gradle/gradle'

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          ref: devprod/upgrade-to-latest-wrapper
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

name: FastAPI People Contributors

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 3 1 * *"
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      debug_enabled:
        description: "Run the build with tmate debugging enabled (https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate)"
        required: false
        default: "false"

env:
  UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON: 1

jobs:
  job:
    if: github.repository_owner == 'fastapi'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

name: FastAPI People Sponsors

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 6 1 * *"
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      debug_enabled:
        description: "Run the build with tmate debugging enabled (https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate)"
        required: false
        default: "false"

env:
  UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON: 1

jobs:
  job:
    if: github.repository_owner == 'fastapi'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

name: 'Lock Threads'

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  issues: write

concurrency:
  group: lock

jobs:
  action:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: dessant/lock-threads@v3
        with:
          github-token: ${{ github.token }}
          issue-inactive-days: '365'
          exclude-any-issue-labels: 'do-not-close'

# limitations under the License.
# ==============================================================================

name: OSV-Scanner Scheduled Scan

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: 0 4 * * 1

permissions:
  # Require writing security events to upload SARIF file to security tab
  security-events: write
  # Only need to read contents
  contents: read

jobs:

        )
      this.writerTask = WriterTask()
      if (pingIntervalMillis != 0L) {
        val pingIntervalNanos = MILLISECONDS.toNanos(pingIntervalMillis)
        taskQueue.schedule("$name ping", pingIntervalNanos) {
          writePingFrame()
          return@schedule pingIntervalNanos
        }
      }
      if (messageAndCloseQueue.isNotEmpty()) {
        runWriter() // Send messages that were enqueued before we were connected.