Meta injection

django_celery_results/backends/database.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import json
 
 from celery import maybe_signature
-from celery.backends.base import BaseDictBackend
+from celery.backends.base import BaseDictBackend, get_current_task
 from celery.exceptions import ChordError
 from celery.result import GroupResult, allow_join_result, result_from_tuple
 from celery.utils.log import get_logger
@@ -99,6 +99,17 @@ def _get_extended_properties(self, request, traceback):
 
         return extended_props
 
+    def _get_meta_from_request(self, request=None):
+        """
+        Use the request or get_current_task to evaluate the `meta` attribute.
+
+        With this, is possible to assign arbitrary data in request.meta to be
+        retrieve and stored on the TaskResult.
+        """
+        request = request or getattr(get_current_task(), "request", None)
+        if request:
+            return getattr(request, "meta", {})
+
     def _store_result(
             self,
             task_id,
@@ -110,14 +121,19 @@ def _store_result(
     ):
         """Store return value and status of an executed task."""
         content_type, content_encoding, result = self.encode_content(result)
-        _, _, meta = self.encode_content(
-            {'children': self.current_task_children(request)}
+
+        meta = {
+            **self._get_meta_from_request(request),
+            "children": self.current_task_children(request),
+        }
+        _, _, encoded_meta = self.encode_content(
+            meta,
         )
 
         task_props = {
             'content_encoding': content_encoding,
             'content_type': content_type,
-            'meta': meta,
+            'meta': encoded_meta,
             'result': result,
             'status': status,
             'task_id': task_id,

docs/index.rst

@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ Contents
 
 .. toctree::
     :maxdepth: 1
-    
+
     getting_started
+    injecting_metadata
     copyright
 
 .. toctree::

docs/injecting_metadata.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+Injecting metadata
+===============
+
+
+To save arbitrary data on the field TaskResult.meta, the Celery Task Request must be manipulated as such:
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        from celery import Celery
+
+        app = Celery('hello', broker='amqp://guest@localhost//')
+
+        @app.task(bind=True)
+        def hello(task_instance):
+            task_instance.request.meta = {'some_key': 'some_value'}
+            task_instance.update_state(
+                state='PROGRESS',
+                meta='Task current result'
+            )
+            # If TaskResult is queried from DB at this momento it will yield
+            # TaskResult(
+            #     result='Task current result',
+            #     meta={'some_key': 'some_value'}  # some discrepancies apply as I didn't document the json parse and children data
+            # )
+            return 'hello world'
+
+        # After task is completed, if TaskResult is queried from DB at this momento it will yield
+        # TaskResult(
+        #     result='hello world',
+        #     meta={'some_key': 'some_value'}  # some discrepancies apply as I didn't document the json parse and children data
+        # )
+
+This way, the value of ``task_instance.request.meta`` will be stored on ``TaskResult.meta``.
+
+Note that the `meta` arg in the method `update_state` is not really a metadata and it's not stored on ``TaskResult.meta``.
+This arg is used to save the CURRENT result of the task. So it's stored on ``TaskResult.result``.
+
+It works this way because while a task is executing, the `TaskResult` is used really as current task state; holding information, temporarily, until the task completes.
+Subsequent calls to `update_state` will update the same `TaskResult`, overwriting what was there previously.
+Upon completion of the task, the results of the task are stored in the same TaskResult, overwriting the previous state of the task.
+So the return from the function is stored in ``TaskResult.result`` and ``TaskResult.status`` is set to 'SUCCESS' (or 'FAILURE').
+

t/unit/backends/test_database.py

@@ -517,6 +517,38 @@ def test_backend__json_serialization__str_result__protocol_1(self):
         assert json.loads(tr.task_args) == ['a', 1, True]
         assert json.loads(tr.task_kwargs) == {'c': 6, 'd': 'e', 'f': False}
 
+    def test_backend__task_result_meta_injection(self):
+        self.app.conf.result_serializer = 'json'
+        self.app.conf.accept_content = {'pickle', 'json'}
+        self.b = DatabaseBackend(app=self.app)
+
+        tid2 = uuid()
+        request = self._create_request(
+            task_id=tid2,
+            name='my_task',
+            args=[],
+            kwargs={},
+            task_protocol=1,
+        )
+        result = None
+
+        # inject request meta arbitrary data
+        request.meta = {
+            'some_key': 'some_value'
+        }
+
+        self.b.mark_as_done(tid2, result, request=request)
+        mindb = self.b.get_task_meta(tid2)
+
+        # check task meta
+        assert mindb.get('result') is None
+        assert mindb.get('task_name') == 'my_task'
+        assert mindb.get('meta') == {'some_key': 'some_value'}
+
+        # check task_result object
+        tr = TaskResult.objects.get(task_id=tid2)
+        assert json.loads(tr.meta) == {}
+
     def xxx_backend(self):
         tid = uuid()