1, you can't. you can expose an URL and view for your client-side app to request for task state. if response of state is "SUCCESS", then you can trigger a client side redirect. 2. when using celery, pass in only the data it's needed, such as a db record ID, and do all your retrievals inside the task.
Some reading for celery best practices: https://denibertovic.com/posts/celery-best-practices/ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/celery-best-practices https://khashtamov.com/en/celery-best-practices-practical-approach/ On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 9:14:42 AM UTC-4, Mohammed Noor wrote: > > Hello guys, > > I need to create a django application that takes a repository url, builds > the code located in the url location and runs a few tests. If the tests are > successfull, it tags the code and then sends an email to the user notifying > the same. > > Because the building process takes a long time, I have used celery to run > it as a background process. I am implementing the following design. > > def main_function(request): > # lines_of_code > result=tasks.BuildCodeAndVerify.delay(args) > #few more lines of code > return (request,'waiting_page.html',context) > > Note: The waiting page has a progress bar that reads percentage progress > from my celery task i.e BuildCodeAndVerify. > > *Now, I am facing two problems:* > > 1. If the build is successful, i need to redirect from the waiting page > and update the html view with a success page and a summary of the build. > How do i make the celery task redirect a webpage? Also, it needs to pass > a dictionary to the webpage containing a summary. How do i do all this? > > 2. Is it possible to pass the request object as an argument like > BuildCodeAndVerify(request,other_args). Because whenever I try i get an > error saying. "WSGI error: type object is not JSON serializable." > > > And I have very limited django and python knowledge so please go easy on > me if my questions look naive. > > Would be grateful for any help and advice i can get. > > Thanks a lot! > Khasim > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/2c43e673-d203-4a78-882f-1723c9c9bd0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
