Celery tasks error handling example

celery_tasks_error_handling.py

from celery import Task
from celery.task import task
from my_app.models import FailedTask
from django.db import models

@task(base=LogErrorsTask)
def some task():
    return result
    
class LogErrorsTask(Task):
    def on_failure(self, exc, task_id, args, kwargs, einfo):
        self.save_failed_task(exc, task_id, args, kwargs, einfo)
        super(LogErrorsTask, self).on_failure(exc, task_id, args, kwargs, einfo)

    def save_failed_task(self, exc, task_id, args, kwargs, traceback):
        """
        :type exc: Exception
        """
        task = FailedTask()
        task.celery_task_id = task_id
        task.full_name = self.name
        task.name = self.name.split('.')[-1]
        task.exception_class = exc.__class__.__name__
        task.exception_msg = unicode(exc).strip()
        task.traceback = unicode(traceback).strip()
        task.updated_at = timezone.now()

        if args:
            task.args = json.dumps(list(args))
        if kwargs:
            task.kwargs = json.dumps(kwargs)

        # Find if task with same args, name and exception already exists
        # If it do, update failures count and last updated_at
        #: :type: FailedTask
        existing_task = FailedTask.objects.filter(
            args=task.args,
            kwargs=task.kwargs,
            full_name=task.full_name,
            exception_class=task.exception_class,
            exception_msg=task.exception_msg,
        )

        if len(existing_task):
            existing_task = existing_task[0]
            existing_task.failures += 1
            existing_task.updated_at = task.updated_at
            existing_task.save(force_update=True,
                               update_fields=('updated_at', 'failures'))
        else:
            task.save(force_insert=True)
            

class FailedTask(models.Model):
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=125)
    full_name = models.TextField()
    args = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
    kwargs = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
    exception_class = models.TextField()
    exception_msg = models.TextField()
    traceback = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
    celery_task_id = models.CharField(max_length=36)
    failures = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(default=1)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('-updated_at',)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return '%s %s [%s]' % (self.name, self.args, self.exception_class)

    def retry_and_delete(self, inline=False):

        import importlib

        # Import real module and function
        mod_name, func_name = self.full_name.rsplit('.', 1)
        mod = importlib.import_module(mod_name)
        func = getattr(mod, func_name)

        args = json.loads(self.args) if self.args else ()
        kwargs = json.loads(self.kwargs) if self.kwargs else {}
        if inline:
            try:
                res = func(*args, **kwargs)
                self.delete()
                return res
            except Exception as e:
                raise e

        self.delete()
        return func.delay(*args, **kwargs)

Very nice. Referenced in https://stackoverflow.com/a/45333231/1092940