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django-carrot
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A lightweight task queue for Django using RabbitMQ

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django-carrot is a lightweight task queue backend for Django projects that uses the RabbitMQ message broker, with an emphasis on quick and easy configuration and task tracking

Installation


Install django-carrot:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install django-carrot

Install and run RabbitMQ

.. code-block:: bash

brew install rabbitmq brew services start rabbitmq

Configuration


  • Add carrot to your Django project's settings module:
.. code-block:: python

INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'carrot', ... ]

  • Apply the carrot migrations to your project's database:
.. code-block:: python

python manage.py migrate carrot

Usage


To start the service:

.. code-block:: bash

python manage.py carrot_daemon start

To run tasks asynchronously:

.. code-block:: python

from carrot.utilities import publish_message

def my_task(**kwargs): return 'hello world'

publishmessage(mytask, hello=True)

To schedule tasks to run at a given interval

.. code-block:: python

from carrot.utilities import createscheduledtask

createscheduledtask(my_task, {'seconds': 5}, hello=True)

.. note:: The above commands must be made from within the Django environment

Docker


A sample docker config is available here <https://github.com/chris104957/django-carrot-docker>_

Full documentation


The full documentation is available here <https://django-carrot.readthedocs.io/>_

Support


If you are having any issues, please log an issue <https://github.com/chris104957/django-carrot/issues/new>_

Contributing


Django-carrot uses Packagr <https://www.packagr.app/>_ to share development builds. If you'd like access to it, please send me your email address at christopherdavies553@gmail.com so I can give you access

License


The project is licensed under the Apache license.

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