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  <section id="signals">
<h1>Signals<a class="headerlink" href="#signals" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<section id="available-signals">
<h2>Available signals<a class="headerlink" href="#available-signals" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Django Q2 emits the following signals during its lifecycle.</p>
<section id="before-enqueuing-a-task">
<h3>Before enqueuing a task<a class="headerlink" href="#before-enqueuing-a-task" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django_q.signals.pre_enqueue</span></code> signal is emitted before a task is
enqueued. The task dictionary is given as the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task</span></code> argument.</p>
</section>
<section id="after-spawning-a-worker-process">
<h3>After spawning a worker process<a class="headerlink" href="#after-spawning-a-worker-process" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django_q.signals.post_spawn</span></code> signal is emitted after a worker process has
spawned. The process name is given as the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">proc_name</span></code> argument (string).</p>
</section>
<section id="before-executing-a-task">
<h3>Before executing a task<a class="headerlink" href="#before-executing-a-task" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django_q.signals.pre_execute</span></code> signal is emitted before a task is
executed by a worker. This signal provides two arguments:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task</span></code>: the task dictionary.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">func</span></code>: the actual function that will be executed. If the task was created
with a function path, this argument will be the callable function
nonetheless.</p></li>
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</section>
<section id="after-executing-a-task">
<h3>After executing a task<a class="headerlink" href="#after-executing-a-task" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django_q.signals.post_execute</span></code> signal is emitted after a task is
executed by a worker and processed by the monitor. It included the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">task</span></code> dictionary with the result.</p>
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<section id="subscribing-to-a-signal">
<h2>Subscribing to a signal<a class="headerlink" href="#subscribing-to-a-signal" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Connecting to a Django Q2 signal is done the same as any other Django
signal:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.dispatch</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">receiver</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django_q.signals</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">pre_enqueue</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">pre_execute</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">post_execute</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">post_spawn</span>

<span class="nd">@receiver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pre_enqueue</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_pre_enqueue_callback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sender</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">task</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Task </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">task</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;name&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2"> will be queued&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nd">@receiver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pre_execute</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_pre_execute_callback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sender</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">func</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">task</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Task </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">task</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;name&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2"> will be executed by calling </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">func</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nd">@receiver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">post_execute</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_post_execute_callback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sender</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">task</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Task </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">task</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;name&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2"> was executed with result </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">task</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;result&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="nd">@receiver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">post_spawn</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_post_spawn_callback</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sender</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">proc_name</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Process </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">proc_name</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2"> has spawned&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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