string
Name of the task. required
string
Unique id of the task (UUID). required
list
List of arguments. Will be an empty list if not provided.
dictionary
Dictionary of keyword arguments. Will be an empty dictionary if not provided.
int
Current number of times this task has been retried. Defaults to 0 if not specified.
string (ISO 8601)
Estimated time of arrival. This is the date and time in ISO 8601 format. If not provided the message is not scheduled, but will be executed asap.
This is an example invocation of the celery.task.PingTask task in JSON format:
{"task": "celery.task.PingTask",
"args": [],
"kwargs": {},
"retries": 0,
"eta": "2009-11-17T12:30:56.527191"}
The protocol supports several serialization formats using the content_type message header.
The MIME-types supported by default are shown in the following table.
Scheme MIME Type json application/json yaml application/x-yaml pickle application/x-python-serialize msgpack application/x-msgpack