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Cadasta Worker Toolbox

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A collection of helpers to assist in quickly building asynchronous workers for the Cadasta system.

Architecture

The Cadasta asynchronous system is designed so that both the scheduled tasks and the task results can be tracked by the central Cadasta Platform. To ensure that this takes place, all Celery workers must be correctly configured to support these features.

Tracking Scheduled Tasks

To keep our system aware of all tasks being scheduled, the Cadasta Platform has a process running to consume task messages off of a task-monitor queue and insert those messages into our database. To support this design, all task producers (including worker nodes) must publish their task messages to both the normal destination queues and the task-monitor queue. This is acheived by registering all queues with a Topic Exchange, setting the task-monitor queue to subscribe to all messages sent to the exchange, and setting standard work queues to subscribe to messages with a matching routing_key. Being that the Cadasta Platform is designed to work with Amazon SQS and the SQS backend only keeps exchange/queue declarations in memory, each message producer must have this set up within their configuration.

Tracking Task Results

TODO

Library

cadasta.workertoolbox.conf.Config

The Config class was built to simplify configuring Celery settings, helping to ensure that all workers adhere to the architecture requirements of the Cadasta asynchronous system. An instance of the Config should come configured with all Celery settings that are required by our system. It is the aim of the class to not require much customization on the part of the developer. However, some customization may be needed when altering configuration between environments (e.g. if dev settings vary greatly from prod settings).

Required Arguments

queues

The only required argument is the queues array. This should contain an array of names for queues that are to be used by the given worker. This includes queues from which the node processes tasks and queues into which the node will schedule tasks. It is not necessary to include the 'celery' or 'platform.fifo' queues, as these will be added automatically. The input of the queues variable will be stored as QUEUES on the Config instance.

Optional Arguments

Any Celery setting may be submitted. It is internal convention that we use the lowercase Celery settings rather than their older upper-case counterparts. This will ensure that they are displayed when calling repr on the Conf instance.

result_backend

Defaults to 'db+postgresql://{0.RESULT_DB_USER}:{0.RESULT_DB_PASS}@{0.RESULT_DB_HOST}/{0.RESULT_DB_NAME}' rendered with self.

broker_transport

Defaults to 'sqs’.

broker_transport_options

Defaults to:

{
    'region': 'us-west-2',
    'queue_name_prefix': '{}-'.format(QUEUE_NAME_PREFIX)
}
task_queues

Defaults to the following set of kombu.Queue objects, where queues is the configuration’s required queues argument and exchange is an a kombu.Exchange object constructed from the task_default_exchange and task_default_exchange_type settings:

set([
    Queue('celery', exchange, routing_key='celery'),
    Queue(platform_queue, exchange, routing_key='#'),
] + [
    Queue(q_name, exchange, routing_key=q_name)
    for q_name in queues
])

Note: It is recommended that developers not alter this setting.

task_routes

Defaults to the following dict, where queues is the configuration’s required queues argument and exchange is an a kombu.Exchange object constructed from the task_default_exchange and task_default_exchange_type settings:

{
    'celery.*': {
        'exchange': exchange,
        'routing_key': 'celery',
    },
}
for q in queues:
    routes.setdefault('{}.*'.format(q), {
        'exchange': exchange,
        'routing_key': q,
    })

Note: It is recommended that developers not alter this setting.

task_default_exchange

Defaults to 'task_exchange'

task_default_exchange_type

Defaults to 'topic'

task_track_started

Defaults to True.

Internal Variables

By convention, all variables pertinent to only the Config class (i.e. not used by Celery) should be written entirely uppercase.

PLATFORM_QUEUE_NAME

Defaults to 'platform.fifo'.

Note: It is recommended that developers not alter this setting.

QUEUE_NAME_PREFIX

Used to populate the queue_name_prefix value of the connections broker_transport_options. Defaults to value of QUEUE_PREFIX environment variable if populated, 'dev' if not.

RESULT_DB_USER

Used to populate the default result_backend template.

RESULT_DB_PASS

Used to populate the default result_backend template.

RESULT_DB_HOST

Used to populate the default result_backend template.

RESULT_DB_NAME

Used to populate the default result_backend template.

cadasta.workertoolbox.tests.build_functional_tests

When provided with a Celery app instance, this function generates a suite of functional tests to ensure that the provided application’s configuration and functionality conforms with the architecture of the Cadasta asynchronous system.

An example, where an instanciated and configured Celery() app instance exists in a parallel celery module:

from cadasta.workertoolbox.tests import build_functional_tests

from .celery import app

FunctionalTests = build_functional_tests(app)

To run these tests, use your standard test runner (e.g. pytest) or call manually from the command-line:

python -m unittest path/to/tests.py

Development

Testing

pip install -r requirements-test.txt
./runtests

Deploying

pip install -r requirements-deploy.txt
python setup.py test clean build publish tag

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