In one of my applications i want to limit users to make a only a specific number of document conversion each calendar month and want to notify them of the conversions they've made and number of conversions they can still make in that calendar month.
So I do something like the following.
class CustomUser(models.Model):
# user fields here
def get_converted_docs(self):
return self.document_set.filter(date__range=[start, end]).count()
def remaining_docs(self):
converted = self.get_converted_docs()
return LIMIT - converted
Now, document conversion is done in the background using celery. So there may be a situation when a conversion task is pending, so in that case the above methods would let a user make an extra conversion, because the pending task is not being included in the count.
How can i get the number of tasks pending for a specific CustomUser
object here ??
update
ok so i tried the following:
from celery.task.control import inspect
def get_scheduled_tasks():
tasks = []
scheduled = inspect().scheduled()
for task in scheduled.values()
tasks.extend(task)
return tasks
This gives me a list of scheduled tasks but now all the values are unicode
for the above mentioned task args look like this:
u'args': u'(<Document: test_document.doc>, <CustomUser: Test User>)'
is there a way these can be decoded back to original django
objects so that i can filter them ?