Yeah I've seen the djcelery solution before... I've tried implementing it, but I'm getting an error on the celeryd console: TypeError: processXLS1() got an unexpected keyword argument 'task_is_eager'
when I try running processXLS1.delay(dataObjectID=someInteger) from a function in views.py here's what's in my tasks.py: " from celery.decorators import task from enzymeFilter.models import * from django.db import transaction @task def printGene(y): print "ppppppppppppppppppp" fil=open('/var/www/media/testFile','w') fil.write('coming from background') fil.close() print Gene.objects.get(id=y+1) return True @task @transaction.commit_manually def processXLS1(datasetObjectID): print "processing XLS as task" datasetObject = Dataset.objects.get(id=datasetObjectID) try: ... more processing code " thanks -Nathan On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Brian Schott <bfsch...@gmail.com> wrote: > You really should look at django-celery and RabbitMQ. The upload submit can > initiate a task that is defined in tasks.py. There are separate worker > processes that pick up the task from the message queue and do the actual > work. These workers don't even have to be on the same machine with rabbitMQ > so you get instant scalability. Then your AJAX job status view can poll a > job status table that is updated by the task and you don't have to worry > about threads. > https://github.com/ask/django-celery > > Brian Schott > bfsch...@gmail.com > > > > On Nov 27, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote: > >> I'm using Django 1.3 and am processing 3 files into genes, proteins, >> and genomes for a tool I built... this processing usually takes >> between 5 minutes to a few hours, depending on the genome size. >> >> After uploading the files (10-100 MB), the upload view begins >> processing the files, without returning for a long time (causing my >> browser to ask me if I want to kill the plupload script). >> >> For the user of this app, they don't know if their upload failed or is >> processing, etc... so I'd think forking the processing function (or >> making it a new thread) is what needs to happen, then the view can >> return to the user, and the upload page can start doing AJAX requests >> to check to processing progress. >> >> I feel like I want to do this: >> http://www.artfulcode.net/articles/threading-django/ >> but am scared of crashing because I've heard Django isn't threadsafe >> with transactions. (and my processing function is making DB >> transactions) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Nathan McCorkle Rochester Institute of Technology College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.