Create a task with name

Creates a named task for migrating from taskqueues example.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Migrating push queues to Cloud Tasks
• Migrating push queues to Cloud Tasks

Code sample

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud Tasks, see Cloud Tasks client libraries.

To authenticate to Cloud Tasks, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.AppEngineHttpRequest;
import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.CloudTasksClient;
import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.HttpMethod;
import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.QueueName;
import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.Task;
import com.google.cloud.tasks.v2.TaskName;

public class CreateTaskWithName {
  public static void createTaskWithName(
      String projectId, String locationId, String queueId, String taskId) throws Exception {
    try (CloudTasksClient client = CloudTasksClient.create()) {
      // TODO(developer): Uncomment these lines and replace with your values.
      // String projectId = "your-project-id";
      // String locationId = "us-central1";
      // String queueId = "default";
      // String taskId = "first-try"

      String queueName = QueueName.of(projectId, locationId, queueId).toString();

      Task.Builder taskBuilder =
          Task.newBuilder()
              .setName(TaskName.of(projectId, locationId, queueId, taskId).toString())
              .setAppEngineHttpRequest(
                  AppEngineHttpRequest.newBuilder()
                      .setRelativeUri("/worker")
                      .setHttpMethod(HttpMethod.GET)
                      .build());

      // Send create task request.
      Task response = client.createTask(queueName, taskBuilder.build());
      System.out.println(response);
    }
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud Tasks, see Cloud Tasks client libraries.

To authenticate to Cloud Tasks, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

client = tasks.CloudTasksClient()

# TODO(developer): Uncomment these lines and replace with your values.
# project = 'my-project-id'
# location = 'us- central1'
# queue = 'default'
# task_name = 'first-try'

parent = client.queue_path(project, location, queue)

task = {
    "name": client.task_path(project, location, queue, task_name),
    "app_engine_http_request": {
        "http_method": tasks.HttpMethod.GET,
        "relative_uri": "/url/path",
    },
}
response = client.create_task(parent=parent, task=task)
print(response)

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