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Distributed Task Queue for Django

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celery - Distributed Task Queue for Django.
============================================

:Authors:
Ask Solem (askh@opera.com)
:Version: 0.1.15

Introduction
------------

``celery`` is a distributed task queue framework for Django.
More information will follow.

Be sure to also consult the `API Reference Documentation`_

.. _`API Reference Docmentation`: http://ask.github.com/celery/

Installation
=============

You can install ``celery`` either via the Python Package Index (PyPI)
or from source.

To install using ``pip``,::

$ pip install celery

To install using ``easy_install``,::

$ easy_install celery

If you have downloaded a source tarball you can install it
by doing the following,::

$ python setup.py build
# python setup.py install # as root

Usage
=====

Have to write a cool tutorial, but here is some simple usage info.

*Note* You need to have a AMQP message broker running, like `RabbitMQ`_,
and you need to have the amqp server setup in your settings file, as described
in the `carrot distribution README`_.

*Note* If you're running ``SQLite`` as the database backend, ``celeryd`` will
only be able to process one message at a time, this because ``SQLite`` doesn't
allow concurrent writes.

.. _`RabbitMQ`: http://www.rabbitmq.com
.. _`carrot distribution README`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carrot/0.3.3


Defining tasks
--------------

>>> from celery.task import tasks
>>> from celery.log import setup_logger
>>> def do_something(some_arg, **kwargs):
... logger = setup_logger(**kwargs)
... logger.info("Did something: %s" % some_arg)
>>> task.register(do_something, "do_something")

Tell the celery daemon to run a task
-------------------------------------

>>> from celery.task import delay_task
>>> delay_task("do_something", some_arg="foo bar baz")


Running the celery daemon
--------------------------

::

$ cd mydjangoproject
$ env DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings celeryd
[....]
[2009-04-23 17:44:05,115: INFO/Process-1] Did something: foo bar baz
[2009-04-23 17:44:05,118: INFO/MainProcess] Waiting for queue.




Autodiscovery of tasks
-----------------------

``celery`` has an autodiscovery feature like the Django Admin, that
automatically loads any ``tasks.py`` module in the applications listed
in ``settings.INSTALLED_APPS``.

A good place to add this command could be in your ``urls.py``,
::

from celery.task import tasks
tasks.autodiscover()



Then you can add new tasks in your applications ``tasks.py`` module,
::

from celery.task import tasks
from celery.log import setup_logger
from clickcounter.models import ClickCount

def increment_click(for_url, **kwargs):
logger = setup_logger(**kwargs)
clicks_for_url, cr = ClickCount.objects.get_or_create(url=for_url)
clicks_for_url.clicks = clicks_for_url.clicks + 1
clicks_for_url.save()
logger.info("Incremented click count for %s (not at %d)" % (
for_url, clicks_for_url.clicks)
tasks.register(increment_click, "increment_click")


Periodic Tasks
---------------

Periodic tasks are tasks that are run every ``n`` seconds. They don't
support extra arguments. Here's an example of a periodic task:


>>> from celery.task import tasks, PeriodicTask
>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> class MyPeriodicTask(PeriodicTask):
... name = "foo.my-periodic-task"
... run_every = timedelta(seconds=30)
...
... def run(self, **kwargs):
... logger = self.get_logger(**kwargs)
... logger.info("Running periodic task!")
...
>>> tasks.register(MyPeriodicTask)


For periodic tasks to work you need to add ``celery`` to ``INSTALLED_APPS``,
and issue a ``syncdb``.

License
=======

This software is licensed under the ``New BSD License``. See the ``LICENSE``
file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.

.. # vim: syntax=rst expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 shiftround

==============
Change history
==============

0.1.15 [2009-05-20 04:13 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* The celery daemon was leaking AMQP connections, this should be fixed, if you have any problems with too many files open (like ``emfile`` errors in ``rabbit.log``, please contact us!

0.1.14 [2009-05-19 01:08 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* Fixed a syntax error in the ``TaskSet`` class. (No such variable ``TimeOutError``).

0.1.13 [2009-05-19 12:36 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* Forgot to add ``yadayada`` to install requirements.

* Now deletes all expired task results, not just those marked as done.

* Able to load the Tokyo Tyrant backend class without django
configuration, can specify tyrant settings directly in the class
constructor.

* Improved API documentation

* Now using the Sphinx documentation system, you can build
the html documentation by doing ::

$ cd docs
$ make html

and the result will be in ``docs/.build/html``.

0.1.12 [2009-05-18 04:38 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* delay_task() etc. now returns ``celery.task.AsyncResult`` object, which lets you check the result and any failure that might have happened. It kind of works like the ``multiprocessing.AsyncResult`` class returned by ``multiprocessing.Pool.map_async``.

* Added dmap() and dmap_async(). This works like the * ``multiprocessing.Pool`` versions except they are tasks distributed to the celery server. Example:

>>> from celery.task import dmap
>>> import operator
>>> dmap(operator.add, [[2, 2], [4, 4], [8, 8]])
>>> [4, 8, 16]

>>> from celery.task import dmap_async
>>> import operator
>>> result = dmap_async(operator.add, [[2, 2], [4, 4], [8, 8]])
>>> result.ready()
False
>>> time.sleep(1)
>>> result.ready()
True
>>> result.result
[4, 8, 16]

* Refactored the task metadata cache and database backends, and added a new backend for Tokyo Tyrant. You can set the backend in your django settings file. e.g

CELERY_BACKEND = "database"; # Uses the database

CELERY_BACKEND = "cache"; # Uses the django cache framework

CELERY_BACKEND = "tyrant"; # Uses Tokyo Tyrant
TT_HOST = "localhost"; # Hostname for the Tokyo Tyrant server.
TT_PORT = 6657; # Port of the Tokyo Tyrant server.

0.1.11 [2009-05-12 02:08 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
-------------------------------------------------

* The logging system was leaking file descriptors, resulting in servers stopping with the EMFILES (too many open files) error. (fixed)

0.1.10 [2009-05-11 12:46 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* Tasks now supports both positional arguments and keyword arguments.

* Requires carrot 0.3.8.

* The daemon now tries to reconnect if the connection is lost.

0.1.8 [2009-05-07 12:27 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
------------------------------------------------

* Better test coverage
* More documentation
* celeryd doesn't emit ``Queue is empty`` message if ``settings.CELERYD_EMPTY_MSG_EMIT_EVERY`` is 0.

0.1.7 [2009-04-30 1:50 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
-----------------------------------------------

* Added some unittests

* Can now use the database for task metadata (like if the task has been executed or not). Set ``settings.CELERY_TASK_META``

* Can now run ``python setup.py test`` to run the unittests from within the ``testproj`` project.

* Can set the AMQP exchange/routing key/queue using ``settings.CELERY_AMQP_EXCHANGE``, ``settings.CELERY_AMQP_ROUTING_KEY``, and ``settings.CELERY_AMQP_CONSUMER_QUEUE``.

0.1.6 [2009-04-28 2:13 P.M CET] askh@opera.com
-----------------------------------------------

* Introducing ``TaskSet``. A set of subtasks is executed and you can find out how many, or if all them, are done (excellent for progress bars and such)

* Now catches all exceptions when running ``Task.__call__``, so the daemon doesn't die. This does't happen for pure functions yet, only ``Task`` classes.

* ``autodiscover()`` now works with zipped eggs.

* celeryd: Now adds curernt working directory to ``sys.path`` for convenience.

* The ``run_every`` attribute of ``PeriodicTask`` classes can now be a ``datetime.timedelta()`` object.

* celeryd: You can now set the ``DJANGO_PROJECT_DIR`` variable for ``celeryd`` and it will add that to ``sys.path`` for easy launching.

* Can now check if a task has been executed or not via HTTP.

You can do this by including the celery ``urls.py`` into your project,

>>> url(r'^celery/$', include("celery.urls"))

then visiting the following url,::

http://mysite/celery/$task_id/done/

this will return a JSON dictionary like e.g:

>>> {"task": {"id": $task_id, "executed": true}}

* ``delay_task`` now returns string id, not ``uuid.UUID`` instance.

* Now has ``PeriodicTasks``, to have ``cron`` like functionality.

* Project changed name from ``crunchy`` to ``celery``. The details of the name change request is in ``docs/name_change_request.txt``.

0.1.0 [2009-04-24 11:28 A.M CET] askh@opera.com
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* Initial release

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