litequeue

Queue implemented on top of SQLite

Why?

You can use this to implement a persistent queue. It also has extra timing metrics for the messages/tasks, and the api to set a message as done lets you specifiy the message_id to be set as done.

Since it's all based on SQLite / SQL, it is easily extendable.

Messages are always passed as strings, so you can use json data as messages. Messages are interpreted as tasks, so after you pop a message, you need to mark it as done when you finish processing it. When you run the .prune() method, it will remove all the finished tasks from the database.

Installation

Create a virtual environment if you are alredy not inside one and install the package using pip:

python3 -m venv .venv
python3 -m pip --require-virtualenv install --upgrade litequeue

Quickstart

from litequeue import LiteQueue

q = LiteQueue(":memory:")

q.put("hello")
q.put("world")

# Message object used by LiteQueue
# Message(data='world', message_id=UUID('063e95f1-3d9f-7547-8000-c3eb531fff93'), status=<MessageStatus.READY: 0>, in_time=1676238611851409010, lock_time=None, done_time=None)

task = q.pop()

print(task)
# Message(data='hello', message_id='063e95f1-3d9e-7bbc-8000-a6a18a5f65d1', status=1, in_time=1676238611851279408, lock_time=1676238623180543854, done_time=None)

q.done(task.message_id)

q.get(task.message_id)

# Message(
#     data='hello',
#     message_id='063e95f1-3d9e-7bbc-8000-a6a18a5f65d1',
#     status=2,                <---- status is now 2 (DONE)
#     in_time=1676238611851279408,
#     lock_time=1676238623180543854,
#     done_time=1676238641276753673
# )

Check out the docs page for more.

Differences with a normal Python queue.Queue

• Persistence
• Different API to set tasks as done (you tell it which message_id to set as done)
• Timing metrics. As long as tasks are still in the queue or not pruned, you can see how long they have been there or how long they took to finish.
• Easy to extend using SQL

Examples and bechmarks and bechmarks

You can have a look at the test.py file. The tests are short and showcase different usage scenarios.

The benchmark.ipynb file contains some benchmarks comparing litequeue to the built-in Python queue.Queue.

Multiple queues in the same DB file

In the LiteQueue class, the filename_or_conn parameter defines the SQLite file that will be used to store the messages, the queue_name parameter is used to define the table name that will be used to store the messages.

Multiple queues in the same SQLite is supported, but it's neither tested nor recommended. But if you need it, you can use different queue_name values when initializing the LiteQueue object to store multiple queues in the same DB file.

import tempfile
import litequeue


with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:

    db_path = tmpdirname + "/test.sqlite3"

    q1 = litequeue.LiteQueue(db_path, queue_name="q1")
    q2 = litequeue.LiteQueue(db_path, queue_name="q2")

    q1.put("a")
    q1.put("b")

    print("Q1 size", q1.qsize())

    print("Q2 size", q2.qsize())

    q2.put("c")
    q2.put("d")

    print("Q2 size", q2.qsize())

    print(q1.pop())
    print(q1.peek())

    print(q2.peek())
    print(q2.pop())

Meta

Ricardo Ander-Egg Aguilar – @ricardoanderegg –

• ricardoanderegg.com
• github.com/polyrand

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

Important changes

• In version 0.6:
  • The database schema has changed and the column message is now data.
  • Time is still measured as an integer, but now it's using nanoseconds.
  • Messages are represented as a frozen dataclass, not as a dictionary.
  • Message IDs are uuidv7 strings.
• In version 0.4 the database schema has changed and the column task_id is now message_id.

Contributing

The only hard rules for the project are:

• No extra dependencies allowed
• No extra files, everything must be inside litequeue.py file.
• Tests must be inside the test.py file.
• Files must be formatted using black and isort, using one import per line.