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Fix app conflict with messages. Django's messages app label conflicts with our messages app. We can't easily rename our label as that will make us rename database tables. Since our app came first we'll just customize Django messages label. For Django 1.7.7 upgrade.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:02:25 -0500
parents 79a71b9d0a2a
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"""
Celery tasks for the core application.

"""
from __future__ import absolute_import

import django.core.mail
from celery import shared_task

import core.whos_online


@shared_task
def send_mail(**kwargs):
    """
    A task to send mail via Django.

    kwargs must be a dict of keyword arguments for an EmailMessage.

    """
    msg = django.core.mail.EmailMessage(**kwargs)
    msg.send()


@shared_task
def cleanup():
    """
    A task to perform site-wide cleanup actions.

    """
    # These imports, when placed at the top of the module, caused all kinds of
    # import problems when running on the production server (Python 2.5 and
    # mod_wsgi). Moving them here worked around that problem.

    from django.contrib.sessions.management.commands import clearsessions
    from forums.management.commands import forum_cleanup

    # Cleanup old sessions

    command = clearsessions.Command()
    command.execute()

    # Execute our forum cleanup command to delete old last visit records.

    command = forum_cleanup.Command()
    command.execute()


@shared_task
def max_users():
    """
    Run the periodic task to calculate the who's online max users/visitors
    statistics.

    """
    core.whos_online.max_users()