Resa-Obamwonyi/celeryInvoiceProcessor

A celery task that fetches the invoice data from a FTP Server (similar to Client 3) once per day and uploads it to the existing API

Task Description

A celery task that fetches the invoice data from a FTP Server (similar to Client 3) once per day and uploads it to the existing API.

Tools

• Django
• Celery
• Redis

Needed Setup Tools

• Virtual environment for installing requirements
• An .env file for storing secrets

Testing

• All tasks in the project are run once the app, celery and the redis worker are up and running

• To start the app, python manage.py runserver

• To run the redis worker: redis server

• To run celery and see a list of available tasks, activate the venv, then run

  • python3 -m celery -A invoice_scheduler worker -l info

• To run the Celery worker as a background process

  • celery -A invoice_scheduler --workdir=. beat -l info --logfile=celery.beat.log --detach
  • celery -A invoice_scheduler --workdir=. worker -l info --logfile=celery.log --detach

• To view the status and logs of the background tasks

  • cat celery.beat.log
  • cat celery.log

• To kill all worker processes

  • pkill -f "celery worker"