rest_scheduler

rest api scheduler using celery, celery beat and celery results

Installation instructions

• pip install -r requirements.txt
• django-admin startproject <PROJECT_NAME>
• python manage.py startapp <APP_NAME>
• access admin from <HOST_URL>/admin

how to create a periodic task

1. Go to periodic tasks from the admin menu
2. Select process_request task from Task(Registered)

process_request task is the task that handles our api requests dynamically

how to specify request for schedule

Any kind of http request can be specified from task arguments section in periodic task page

• Go To Arguments(Show) section in the periodic task edit/create page
• Collapse the menu and enjoy your api in keyword arguments section like below examples

Example POST request specification

{ "url" : "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", "method" : "POST", "json" :{ "title": "foo", "body": "bar", "userId": 1 }, "headers": { "Content-type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8" } }

Example GET request specification

{ "url" : "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", "method" : "GET", "headers" : {"accept": "application/json"} }

params, data, json, headers, auth, timeout, auth request parameters are supported

How to schedule periodic task

There are tons of options to be able to schedule a periodic tasks

• Besides scheduling it, it is available to be run manually when you select periodic task from the periodic task lists page and run it manually from the action dorpdown menu
• All selected periodic tasks in schedule or manually selected will be run in parallel thats what celery offers

1. Click + sign near interval schedule and enter your desired time of period
2. Select created interval

How to monitor task results

• Task results page contains information about status and time of finish of the task
• You can see the return data when you go into the result details from result data section

Enjoy!!!