My site allows users to post things on the site with an expiry date. Once the item has expired, it will no longer be displayed in the listings. Posts can also be closed, canceled, or completed. I think it would be be nicest just to be able to check for one attribute or status (“is active”) rather than having to check for [is not expired, is not completed, is not closed, is not canceled]. Handling the rest of those is easy because I can just have one “status” field which is essentially an enum, but AFAIK, it’s impossible to set the status to “expired” as soon as that time occurs. How do people typically handle this?
Edit: I’m not asking how to write a query to find expired items; I’m asking how I can find the “active” (unexpired items that meet a few other boolean conditions) without having to use a big nasty query every time I want to find them.
I think that can be managed with cronjob and django custom management command, is just an idea.