Can not pass async() non-core functions

[davewilliamstx]

I have views.py and tasks.py in my project folder.

I have the following in views.py:

# views.py
def TestAsync(request):
    from django_q.tasks import async
    import tasks

    async('tasks.hi', 'Hooray!')

    return HttpResponseRedirect('blah')

and tasks.py is:

# tasks.py
def hi(string_to_print):
    print string_to_print

When I hit the url I have wired to call my TestAsync view, I get the following error:

'module' object has no attribute 'hi'

I am able, however, to get the email examples from the django-q docs working, among other examples that use functions from django core/python built-ins. I've tried passing the function to async() with and without quotes, tried putting the 'hi' function right in the view, and every importing scheme I can think of...I still get the same error.

I have a feeling that this might be an error caused my my lack of understanding on what constitutes an acceptable function to pass to async() - however on the off chance it's a bug I wanted to drop a note here.

If it's my fault, perhaps it will help others to have a lower-level explanation of what async() expects from it's functions?

[Koed00]

You need to point to tasks.py with it's full path, which would include the project or root,
i.e. 'myapp.tasks.hi'.
This is because you're not restricted to executing only local functions.

If you had imported myapp.tasks in views.py, you could have pointed to it directly without the quotes.
The quoted approach however, is more safe.

[davewilliamstx]

I quickly tried adding the import from tasks import hi to the view, and then calling it directly, ie: async(hi, 'Hooray!') and I still get: 'module' object has no attribute 'hi'. Also tried passing the full path in quotes, no dice.

I really hope I'm not just doing something dumb, but I really think this should be working.

[davewilliamstx]

As I suspected, it was me being dumb. Import redundancies in my views.py.