Flask: passing around background worker job (rq, redis)

Question

I want to do a very simple thing: Launch a worker to something and then return the answer to user. I\'m trying to do so using a combination of Flask and RQ.

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Answer 1

Problem with serializing arguments (you actually trying to serialize function object which is impossible with pickle).

Try

@app.route('/make/')
def make():
    job = q.enqueue(func=do_something, args=('argument',))
    session['job'] = job
    return 'Done'