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Base class for Celery tasks running inside Flask request context
from celery import Task
from flask import has_request_context, make_response, request
from myapp import app
__all__ = ['RequestContextTask']
class RequestContextTask(Task):
"""Base class for tasks that originate from Flask request handlers
and carry over most of the request context data.
This has an advantage of being able to access all the usual information
that the HTTP request has and use them within the task. Pontential
use cases include e.g. formatting URLs for external use in emails sent
by tasks.
"""
abstract = True
#: Name of the additional parameter passed to tasks
#: that contains information about the original Flask request context.
CONTEXT_ARG_NAME = '_flask_request_context'
def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
"""Execute task code with given arguments."""
call = lambda: super(RequestContextTask, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
context = kwargs.pop(self.CONTEXT_ARG_NAME, None)
if context is None or has_request_context():
return call()
with app.test_request_context(**context):
result = call()
# process a fake "Response" so that
# ``@after_request`` hooks are executed
app.process_response(make_response(result or ''))
return result
def apply_async(self, args=None, kwargs=None, **rest):
if rest.pop('with_request_context', True):
self._include_request_context(kwargs)
return super(RequestContextTask, self).apply_async(args, kwargs, **rest)
def apply(self, args=None, kwargs=None, **rest):
if rest.pop('with_request_context', True):
self._include_request_context(kwargs)
return super(RequestContextTask, self).apply(args, kwargs, **rest)
def retry(self, args=None, kwargs=None, **rest):
if rest.pop('with_request_context', True):
self._include_request_context(kwargs)
return super(RequestContextTask, self).retry(args, kwargs, **rest)
def _include_request_context(self, kwargs):
"""Includes all the information about current Flask request context
as an additional argument to the task.
"""
if not has_request_context():
return
# keys correspond to arguments of :meth:`Flask.test_request_context`
context = {
'path': request.path,
'base_url': request.url_root,
'method': request.method,
'headers': dict(request.headers),
}
if '?' in request.url:
context['query_string'] = request.url[(request.url.find('?') + 1):]
kwargs[self.CONTEXT_ARG_NAME] = context
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