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Meilo
Meilo

Reputation: 3418

Celery tasks don't get revoked

I'm running multiple simulations as tasks through celery (version 2.3.2) from django. The simulations get set up by another task:

In views.py:

result = setup_simulations.delay(parameters)
request.session['sim'] = result.task_id # Store main task id

In tasks.py:

@task(priority=1)
def setup_simulations(parameters):
    task_ids = []
    for i in range(number_of_simulations):
        result = run_simulation.delay(other_parameters)
        task_ids.append(result.task_id)
    return task_ids

After the initial task (setup_simulations) has finished, I try to revoke the simulation tasks as follows:

main_task_id = request.session['sim']
main_result = AsyncResult(main_task_id)
# Revoke sub tasks
from celery.task.control import revoke
for sub_task_id in main_result.get():
    sub_result = AsyncResult(sub_task_id); sub_result.revoke() # Does not work
    # revoke(sub_task_id) # Does not work neither

When I look at the output from "python manage.py celeryd -l info", the tasks get executed as if nothing had happened. Any ideas somebody what could have gone wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3896

Answers (1)

asksol
asksol

Reputation: 19499

As you mention in the comment, revoke is a remote control command so it's only currently supported by the amqp and redis transports.

You can accomplish this yourself by storing a revoked flag in your database, e.g:

from celery import states
from celery import task
from celery.exceptions import Ignore

from myapp.models import RevokedTasks


@task
def foo():
    if RevokedTasks.objects.filter(task_id=foo.request.id).count():
        if not foo.ignore_result:
            foo.update_state(state=states.REVOKED)
        raise Ignore()

If your task is working on some model you could even store a flag in that.

Upvotes: 1

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