This sample demonstrates how to use the Cloud Tasks client library.
create_http_task.py is a simple command-line program to create
tasks to be pushed to an URL endpoint.
create_http_task_with_token.py is a simple command-line program to create
tasks to be pushed to an URL endpoint with authorization header.
Please refer to Setting Up a Python Development Environment.
To set up authentication, please refer to our authentication getting started guide.
To create a queue (named my-queue) using the Cloud SDK, use the following
gcloud command:
gcloud tasks queues create my-queue
Set environment variables:
First, your project ID:
export PROJECT_ID=my-project-id
Then the queue ID, as specified at queue creation time. Queue IDs already
created can be listed with gcloud tasks queues list.
export QUEUE_ID=my-queue
And finally the location ID, which can be discovered with
gcloud tasks queues describe my-queue, with the location embedded in
the "name" value (for instance, if the name is
"projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/queues/my-queue", then the
location is "us-central1").
export LOCATION_ID=us-central1
Set an environment variable for the endpoint to your task handler. This is an example url:
export URL=https://example.com/task_handler
Running the sample will create a task and send the task to the specific URL endpoint, with a payload specified:
python create_http_task.py --project=$PROJECT_ID --queue=$QUEUE_ID --location=$LOCATION_ID --url=$URL --payload=hello