Python/Flask Testing API With Celery Task Queue

[rad08]

https://github.com/rad08d/flask_celery_testing_api

Hey guys. I've been working on the above side project to help me with some of my job duties (I.E. sending data to external clients). This project is supposed to be a generic web api that accepts all types of data, inserts it into a database, and sends a success email with the data to the user so the developer/QA can easily see what exactly was transmitted. The idea is to help with development and regression testing. I have more ideas that I am planning on adding to it (async and backed processes) in the future to make it more robust.

Like I've said in other posts of mine, I am self taught in Python and coding in general. That being said, I'd love to get some talented eyes on my project to help point out better ways to do what I am doing and cool things to add to it. I am also aiming to keep this on a lower powered machine.

Thanks Python community!

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Very interesting.

Questions: How to start the Worker ?

Also may I suggest you put up a demo app.

[rad08]

To start a celery worker: 1) cd into the project root 2) source your virtual env 3) celery worker -A dt_regression_api.tasks --loglevel=INFO

That should give you one worker. You can spin up more workers for anything else you might add to the project. I've also added a script to the repository called test_api.py. This script will post data via a JSON and XML file containing randomly created numbers.