Introduction

Create tasks that can show up in the admin interface. It relies on a couple of things:

• redis (installed and running).
• django-admin-tools (for displaying content in the admin)
• django-celery
• tastypie (for supplying task information via a RESTful api)

See the example project for an example implementation.

Installation

clone the repository and run the setup.py:

git clone git@github.com:flenter/django-progressable.git
cd django-progressable
python setup.py install

How to use this?

To try the example, go to the example project folder and run:

pip install -r conf/requirements.txt

and (assuming the example project will be run via manage.py runserver):

pip install -r conf/dev_requirements.txt

After that the usual two commands:

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

Or check two files from the example project.

• tsktsk/views.py here some task are created with their corresponding TaskStatus objects
• tsktsk/tasks.py contains a task that updates itself on its progress
• dashboard.py This is a custom dashboard that includes the 'Task Status Information' and 'Redis status information' module

For people who just want to know how to implement 'progressable' quick'n'dirty, here's a short howto:

1. make sure you have set up django and celery with redis. Set the CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES variable in your settings. This is the timeout for the information in Redis.
2. make sure you register your task by calling register_task(celery_task_instance, staff_required = True, hidden = False) will make sure it will be visible in the admin (the register_task can be found in progressable.utils namespace).
3. update your task to update it's progress info as a status update.

Note: This continuous updating is why I've chosen for a Redis/Redisco implementation. The idea here is that tasks update themselves often, a scenario that doesn't look to be ideal for the traditional database.

A sample implementation of a task:

from celery.task import task
from time import sleep
from progressable.states import PROGRESS

@task
def add(x, y):
  for i in range(100):
    add.update_status(
        state = "PROGRESS",
        meta={'completed':i}
    )

  return x + y

On a final note:

• the current implementation is not suited for running multiple sites on the same redis db. In fact there's little control over which db etc the information is stored
• The jquery code for the django-admin is inline, this should be done more nicely
• the admin module is not really multi-langual yet (and might never fully be because the title of a taskstatus object is generated when it is created ).