updating job progress inside of job

[bulkan]

Hi,

First of all thanks for a rq it's quite awesome !

I was just wondering if is possible to add a feature where the Job object is passed onto the job function so that it can update its progress into redis ?

Something like;

@job('low', conn=my_redis_conn, timeout=5)
def slow_fib(n, j):
    j.progress(n)
    if n <= 1:
        return 1
    else:
        return slow_fib(n-1) + slow_fib(n-2)

Cheers

[nvie]

Closing this by being a duplicate of #46 and #54.

Progress reporting is a domain specific problem, which has been talked about earlier, but which is too broad for RQ itself.

That said, I'd have to agree with you that RQ currently does not provide you with the proper primitives to implement such easily yourself. Therefore, I've opened #125 to put it back on the agenda to get the Job instance or the job ID available from within the job function.

Thanks for submitting.