Question

I’m using beanstalkc a python wrapper for the beanstalkd application.

What I’d like to do is have the producer to put some jobs(e.g: ‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’) once and that the consumer could get the jobs continually(e.g: ‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’,’a’,’b’,…).

In the consumer I get the jobs with job.reserve(). I thought the solution was just reserving the jobs without deleting them, but after I ran some consumer processes I got a TIMEOUT ERROR.

I’m clearly doing something wrong but I couldn’t find a way to “re-queue” the jobs the consumers use.

Answer 1

I think this could be a solution:

producer:

queue.put('a', priority=0)

Consumer:

job = queue.reserve()
do something with job
new_priority = job.stats()['pri'] + 1
job.release(priority=new_priority)