Django Q

##A multiprocessing task queue for Django

###Features

• Multiprocessing worker pool
• Encrypted and compressed task packages
• Scheduled tasks
• Result hooks
• Result and Failure database
• PaaS compatible with multiple pools
• Django Admin

Requirements

• Redis-py
• Django > = 1.7
• Django-picklefield
• Arrow
• Blessed

Tested with: Python 2.7, 3.4. Django 1.7.8, 1.8.2*

*Django Q is currently in Alpha and as such not safe for production, yet.

Installation

• Install the latest version with pip: pip install django-q
• Add django_q to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # other apps
    'django_q',
)

• Run python manage.py migrate to create the database tables
• Make sure you have a Redis server running somewhere

###Configuration

All configuration settings are optional. e.g:

# settings.py
Q_CLUSTER = {
    'name': 'myproject', 
    'workers': 8, 
    'recycle': 500,
    'compress': True,
    'save_limit': 250,
    'label': 'Django Q',
    'redis': {
        'host': '127.0.0.1',
        'port': 6379,
        'db': 0, }
}

• name Used to differentiatie between projects using the same Redis server* default: 'default'

• workers The number of workers to use in the cluster default: CPU count of host

• recycle The number of tasks a worker will process before respawing. Used to release resources. default: 500

• compress Compress task packages to Redis. Useful for large payloads. default: False

• save_limit Limits the amount of successful tasks saved to Django. Set to 0 for unlimited. Set to -1 for no success storage at all. Failures are always saved. default: 250

• label The label used for the Django Admin page default: 'Django Q'

• redis Connection settings for Redis. Follows standard Redis-Py syntax. default: localhost

*Django Q uses your SECRET_KEY to encrypt task packages and prevent task crossover

Managment Commands

qcluster

Start a cluster with: python manage.py qcluster ####qmonitor Monitor your clusters with python manage.py qmonitor

Creating Tasks

Async

async(func,*args,hook=None,**kwargs)

from django_q import async, result

# create the task
async('math.copysign', 2, -2)

# or with import and storing the id
import math.copysign

task_id = async(copysign, 2, -2)

# get the result
task_result = result(task_id)

# result returns None if the task has not been executed yet
# so in most cases you will want to use a hook:

async('math.modf', 2.5, hook='hooks.print_result')

# hooks.py
def print_result(task):
    print(task.result)

####Schedule Schedules are regular Django models. You can manage them through the Admin page or in your code:

from django_q import Schedule
from django.utils import timezone

Schedule.create(func='math.copysign', 
                hook='hooks.print_result', 
                args='2,-2', 
                schedule_type=Schedule.DAILY,
                next_run=timezone.now())

##Todo

• Write sphinx documentation
• Better tests and coverage
• Get out of Alpha
• Less dependencies?