django-background-tasks-example

This example shows how to set up and use django-background-tasks.

Usage

Install project dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Prepare database

cd project
python manage.py migrate

Start the server.

python manage.py runserver

Register a task (on separate terminal)

curl -d message=hello http://localhost:8000/api/v1/tasks/

Process tasks

python manage.py process_tasks

The primary downside of using this background tasks with pika is that we need a separate django call to process tasks. I'm not sure how easy this is to do in deployment. Then, we need to curl any listening tasks.