Get the Id of Task that is running me

[daveisagit]

Having called manage.py process_tasks which will then call the function given in the task, is it possible for that function to somehow get hold of the Task Id that caused its invocation?

[marisancans]

I also tried to find a way of getting this, but no luck

[vkisku]

Make use of the Task model from background_task.models and fetch the inserted Id from the function running it

[marisancans]

Make use of the Task model from background_task.models and fetch the inserted Id from the function running it

This is not a reliable method when multiple tasks can be executed at the same time. Using something like Task.objects.latest() there is no guarantee that it is the correct task. Because this package uses @background to register tasks, would it be that hard to add the task id in some sort of a static variable? Something like this:

def static_var(varname, value):
    def decorate(func):
        setattr(func, varname, value)
        return func
    return decorate


@static_var("counter", 0)
def foo():
    foo.counter += 1
    print "Counter is %d" % foo.counter

For now i'm using an ugly way to do this. I'm passing a random hash to function as an argument and later on I search the database to find object that has this hash in argument field.