📝 Update task-queue docs in contributing

automappa/pages/home/tasks/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .task_status_badge import set_badge_color
+from .status_badge import set_badge_color
 from .sample_cards import (
     create_metagenome_model,
     initialize_refinement,

docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   - [Postgres](#postgres)
   - [RabbitMQ](#rabbitmq)
   - [Celery](#celery-task-queue)
+    - [task-queue docs](task-queue.md)
   - [Redis](#redis)
   - [Flower](#flower)
 - [Dev Resources](#development-resources)
@@ -1117,7 +1118,7 @@ Automappa services (`redis`, `flower`, `web`, `celery`, `rabbitmq`)
 as tasks are registered with celery at instantiation and will not be
 'hot-reloaded' like other parts of the app.
 
-For more information on implementing new tasks see the [task docs](../automappa/pages/home/tasks/README.md)
+For more information on implementing new tasks see the [task-queue docs](task-queue.md)
 
 <details>
 

docs/task-queue.md

@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Tasks
 
+Simple steps to adding a task:
+
+1. [Add page's `tasks` module](#adding-a-new-task-module-discovery-path)
+2. [Add page tasks module in `celeryconfig.py`](#add-in-tasks-module-in-celeryconfigpy)
+3. [Define task in `tasks` module](#define-task-in-tasks-module)
+4. [Import task in `__init__.py` w.r.t `tasks` module](#import-task-in-__init__py-within-respective-tasks-module)
+
+
 ## Adding a new task module discovery path
 
 To have the Celery task-queue register a page's tasks, they must be
@@ -10,31 +18,63 @@ We have our page's tasks module:
 
 ```console
 automappa/pages/home/tasks
-├── README.md
+|...
 ├── __init__.py
-└── task_status_badge.py
+└── status_badge.py
 ```
 
+## Add in `tasks` module in `celeryconfig.py`
+
 We configure celery for this module in the `celeryconfig.py` file.
 
 ```python
-# contents of celeryconfig.py
+# contents of automappa/conf/celeryconfig.py
 imports = ("automappa.pages.home.tasks", "automappa.tasks")
 ```
 
 This ***almost*** takes care of celery checking for tasks in the module
 
-Unfortunately, this is not all, we also need to update the
+Unfortunately, this is not all...
+
+## Define task in `tasks` module
+
+Here is a simple example where we will simulate a long-running task with sleep and then set a badge color.
+
+> Notice we are importing our celery task-queue application (`queue`) from the base automappa directory.
+
+```python
+# contents of /automappa/pages/home/tasks/status_badge.py
+import time
+
+from automappa.tasks import queue
+
+
+@queue.task(bind=True)
+def set_badge_color(self, color: str) -> str:
+    time.sleep(15)
+    return color
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    pass
+
+```
+
+Now with our task defined we can move on to importing it into our `tasks` module to be used by celery.
+
+## Import task in `__init__.py` within respective `tasks` module
+
+We also need to update the
 `automappa/pages/home/tasks/__init__.py` with all of our implemented tasks in the 
 module for celery to recognize and register the tasks under the `automappa/pages/home/tasks` module.
 
-For example  we have a task `set_badge_color` defined in `task_status_badge.py`.
+For example  we have a task `set_badge_color` defined in `status_badge.py`.
 
 We would need to explicitly add this task to `__init__.py` like so:
 
 ```python
 # contents of `automappa/pages/home/tasks/__init__.py`
-from .task_status_badge import set_badge_color
+from .status_badge import set_badge_color # *Notice this is a relative import*
 
 __all__ = ["set_badge_color"]
 ```
@@ -62,7 +102,7 @@ Voilá, now celery will recognize the task on startup. It should look like this:
                 .> celery           exchange=celery(direct) key=celery
                 
 [tasks]
-  . automappa.pages.home.tasks.task_status_badge.set_badge_color
+  . automappa.pages.home.tasks.status_badge.set_badge_color
   . automappa.tasks.aggregate_embeddings
   . automappa.tasks.count_kmer
   . automappa.tasks.embed_kmer
@@ -97,4 +137,4 @@ but each page has its own `tasks` module with an `__init__.py`
 where any tasks implemented under this module must be imported into
 `__init__.py` and specified in the `__all__` dunder variable.
 
-You can avoid alot of headache by recalling this...
+You can avoid alot of headache by recalling this...