[Fixed]-Celery task and customize decorator

Not quite sure why passing arguments won’t work?

if you use this example:

@task()
def add(x, y):
    return x + y

lets add some logging to the MyCoolTask:

from celery import task
from celery.registry import tasks

import logging
import celery

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class MyCoolTask(celery.Task):

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """In celery task this function call the run method, here you can
        set some environment variable before the run of the task"""
        logger.info("Starting to run")
        return self.run(*args, **kwargs)

    def after_return(self, status, retval, task_id, args, kwargs, einfo):
        #exit point of the task whatever is the state
        logger.info("Ending run")
        pass

and create an extended class (extending MyCoolTask, but now with arguments):

class AddTask(MyCoolTask):

    def run(self,x,y):
        if x and y:
            result=add(x,y)
            logger.info('result = %d' % result)
            return result
        else:
            logger.error('No x or y in arguments')

tasks.register(AddTask)

and make sure you pass the kwargs as json data:

{"x":8,"y":9}

I get the result:

[2013-03-05 17:30:25,853: INFO/MainProcess] Starting to run
[2013-03-05 17:30:25,855: INFO/MainProcess] result = 17
[2013-03-05 17:30:26,739: INFO/MainProcess] Ending run
[2013-03-05 17:30:26,741: INFO/MainProcess] Task iamscheduler.tasks.AddTask[6a62641d-16a6-44b6-a1cf-7d4bdc8ea9e0] succeeded in 0.888684988022s: 17

Instead of use decorator why you don’t create a base class that extend celery.Task ?

In this way all your tasks can extend your customized task class, where you can implement your personal behavior by using methods __call__ and after_return
.
You can also define common methods and object for all your task.

class MyCoolTask(celery.Task):

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """In celery task this function call the run method, here you can
        set some environment variable before the run of the task"""
        return self.run(*args, **kwargs)

    def after_return(self, status, retval, task_id, args, kwargs, einfo):
        #exit point of the task whatever is the state
        pass