Pykiq

A sidekiq client library for python 3. It uses a simple redis connection to store jobs in one of sidekiqs redis queues.

Usage

The same redis connection, i.e. server, port and database, must be used as it is already done for sidekiq. You can store it in a pykiq connector object:

import pykiq
import redis

error_handler = pykiq.error.NullErrorHandler()
conn = redis.Redis(name, port, db)
connector = pykiq.connector.RedisConnector.from_existing_connection(error_handler, conn)

This connection can be used to create a pykiq connection:

kiq = pykiq.Sidekiq(connector)

Unfortunately, you cannot use this connection directly, since each job has arguments to process and a queue, in which it is enlisted.

Therefore, an object-oriented approach should be used:

class MyJobs(pykiq.Sidekiq):
    def __init__(self, connector: Connector) -> None:
        super().__init__(connector)
        ...

Queues can be declared directly in the constructor. You must re-use the names of the sidekiq queues.

class MyJobs(pykiq.Sidekiq):
    def __init__(self, connector: Connector) -> None:
        super().__init__(connector)
        urgent_queue = pykiq.SidekiqQueue("urgent", self)

A job can now easily be added:

class MyJobs(pykiq.Sidekiq):
    def __init__(self, connector: Connector) -> None:
        super().__init__(connector)
        urgent_queue = pykiq.SidekiqQueue("urgent", self)
        self.__clean_up = CleanUpJob(urgent_queue)

    @property
    def clean_up(self):
        return self.__clean_up

class CleanUpJob(pykiq.Job):
    def __init__(self, queue: pykiq.SidekiqQueue) -> None:
        super().__init__(queue, "full::name::of::CleanUpJob")

    def clean_up_at(self, time_span: datetime.timedelta, amount: int):
        return super()._perform_in(time_span, amount)

When declaring a new job, the full name of the ruby class including the module namespaces must be added. Each job declares to methods: _perform_in and _perform_async, where the first takes a timedelta to specify a delay. Please note, that the delay must be positive and should respect network latencies.

Any other argument can be added using the variadic argument list and hence a job should declare its own function with arguments.

The usage now is quite simple:

jobs = MyJobs(connector)
jobs.clean_up.clean_up_at(timedelta(minutes=30), 50)

That's it.

License

This is merely a re-write of sidekiq's ruby code in python. Hence the same license for sidekiq and pykiq are used and the library can be freely distributed according to the LGPLv3.

Versioning

This library follows semantic versioning 2.0. Any breaking change will produce a new major release. Versions below 1.0 are considered to have a unstable interface.