message_scheduler

Schedule message on a given date time

Installation

Create a project directory

mkdir scheduler
cd scheduler

Install Virtual enviornment

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/shinasnp/message_scheduler.git

Steps:

virtualenv -p python3 env
source env/bin/activate
cd message_scheduler
pip3 install -r requirement.txt

Start celery Worker

export CLOUDAMQP_URL=amqp://username:password@hostname/vhost
celery -A scheduler worker --loglevel info --without-gossip --without-mingle --without-heartbeat

Start Api

export CLOUDAMQP_URL=amqp://username:password@hostname/vhost
python manage.py runserver

Test

python manage.py test

To schedule a message at a given time

curl -X POST \
  http://127.0.0.1:8000/message/ \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"message":"Sample Message",
	"datetime":"18/01/2019 14:31"
}'