From 8b3d6b7d2a9a7f37572fb7638a22d8495a7e2212 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ihuk <ivica@bitwerk.io>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:21:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Initial work on fix for #424 - TypeError: can't pickle
 _thread.lock objects.

Made `Broker` and `Queue` classes pickable which fixes the the problem with new default `spawn` proces start method.
---
 django_q/brokers/__init__.py |  8 ++++++++
 django_q/cluster.py          | 10 +++++++++-
 django_q/queues.py           |  8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/django_q/brokers/__init__.py b/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
index 5bef988..728290f 100644
--- a/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
+++ b/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ class Broker:
         self.cache = self.get_cache()
         self._info = None
 
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        return self.list_key, self._info
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        self.list_key, self._info = state
+        self.connection = self.get_connection(self.list_key)
+        self.cache = self.get_cache()
+
     def enqueue(self, task):
         """
         Puts a task onto the queue
diff --git a/django_q/cluster.py b/django_q/cluster.py
index 1d55663..5fc437e 100644
--- a/django_q/cluster.py
+++ b/django_q/cluster.py
@@ -12,7 +12,15 @@ from time import sleep
 import arrow
 
 # Django
-from django import db
+from django import db, core
+from django.apps.registry import apps
+
+try:
+    apps.check_apps_ready()
+except core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady:
+    import django
+    django.setup()
+
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
diff --git a/django_q/queues.py b/django_q/queues.py
index 9844fe2..346ccec 100644
--- a/django_q/queues.py
+++ b/django_q/queues.py
@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ class Queue(multiprocessing.queues.Queue):
             super(Queue, self).__init__(
                 *args, ctx=multiprocessing.get_context(), **kwargs
             )
-
         self.size = SharedCounter(0)
 
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        return super(Queue, self).__getstate__() + (self.size, )
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state):
+        super(Queue, self).__setstate__(state[:-1])
+        self.size = state[-1]
+
     def put(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super(Queue, self).put(*args, **kwargs)
         self.size.increment(1)