Create a task

Creates a 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.protobuf.ByteString;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

public class CreateTask {
  public static void createTask(String projectId, String locationId, String queueId)
      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 key = "key";

      // Construct the fully qualified queue name.
      String queueName = QueueName.of(projectId, locationId, queueId).toString();

      // Construct the task body.
      Task taskParam =
          Task.newBuilder()
              .setAppEngineHttpRequest(
                  AppEngineHttpRequest.newBuilder()
                      .setRelativeUri("/worker?key=" + key)
                      .setHttpMethod(HttpMethod.GET)
                      .build())
              .build();

      Task taskPayload =
          Task.newBuilder()
              .setAppEngineHttpRequest(
                  AppEngineHttpRequest.newBuilder()
                      .setBody(ByteString.copyFrom(key, Charset.defaultCharset()))
                      .setRelativeUri("/worker")
                      .setHttpMethod(HttpMethod.POST)
                      .build())
              .build();

      // Send create task request.
      Task[] tasks = new Task[] {taskParam, taskPayload};
      for (Task task : tasks) {
        Task response = client.createTask(queueName, task);
        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'
amount = 10

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

task = {
    "app_engine_http_request": {
        "http_method": tasks.HttpMethod.POST,
        "relative_uri": "/update_counter",
        "app_engine_routing": {"service": "worker"},
        "body": str(amount).encode(),
    }
}

response = client.create_task(parent=parent, task=task)
eta = response.schedule_time.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
print(f"Task {response.name} enqueued, ETA {eta}.")

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