psycopg2-mq 0.1.3

A message queue written around PostgreSQL.

psycopg2_mq is a message queue implemented on top of PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, and psycopg2.

Currently the library provides only the low-level constructs that can be used to build a multithreaded worker system. It is broken into two components:

• psycopg2_mq.MQWorker - a reusable worker object that manages a single-threaded worker that can accept jobs and execute them. An application should create worker per thread. It supports an API for thread-safe graceful shutdown.

• psycopg2_mq.MQSource - a source object providing a client-side API for invoking and querying job states.

Data Model

Queues

Workers run jobs defined in queues. Currently each queue will run jobs concurrently, while a future version may support serial execution on a per-queue basis. Each registered queue should contain an execute_job(job) method.

Jobs

The execute_job method of a queue is passed a Job object containing the following attributes:

• id

• queue

• method

• args

As a convenience, there is an extend(**kw) method which can be used to add extra attributes to the object. This is useful in individual queues to define a contract between a queue and its methods.

Example Worker

from psycopg2_mq import (
    MQWorker,
    make_default_model,
)
from sqlalchemy import (
    MetaData,
    create_engine,
)
import sys

class EchoQueue:
    def execute_job(self, job):
        return f'hello, {job.args["name"]} from method="{job.method}"'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    engine = create_engine(sys.argv[1])
    metadata = MetaData()
    model = make_default_model(metadata)
    worker = MQWorker(
        engine=engine,
        queues={
            'echo': EchoQueue(),
        },
        model=model,
    )
    worker.run()

Example Source

engine = create_engine()
metadata = MetaData()
model = make_default_model(metadata)
session_factory = sessionmaker()
session_factory.configure(bind=engine)

dbsession = session_factory()
with dbsession.begin():
  mq = MQSource(
      dbsession=dbsession,
      model=model,
  )
  job = mq.call('echo', 'hello', {'name': 'Andy'})
  print(f'queued job={job.id}')

0.1.3 (2018-09-04)

• Rename the thread to contain the job id while it’s handling a job.

0.1.2 (2018-09-04)

• Rename Job.params to Job.args.

0.1.1 (2018-09-04)

• Make psycopg2 an optional dependency in order to allow apps to depend on psycopg2-binary if they wish.

0.1 (2018-09-04)

• Initial release.