Sample command-line program for interacting with the Google Cloud Tasks API using pull queues.

Pull queues let you add tasks to a queue, then programatically remove and interact with them. Tasks can be added or processed in any environment, such as on Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine.

pull_queue_snippets.py is a simple command-line program to demonstrate listing queues, creating tasks, and pulling and acknowledging tasks.

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 using the Cloud SDK, use the following gcloud command:

gcloud alpha tasks queues create-pull-queue my-pull-queue

Set the environment variables:

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 alpha tasks queues list.

export QUEUE_ID=my-pull-queue

And finally the location ID, which can be discovered with gcloud alpha tasks queues describe $QUEUE_ID, with the location embedded in the "name" value (for instance, if the name is "projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/queues/my-pull-queue", then the location is "us-central1").

export LOCATION_ID=us-central1

Create a task for a queue:

python pull_queue_snippets.py create-task --project=$PROJECT_ID --queue=$QUEUE_ID --location=$LOCATION_ID

Pull and acknowledge a task:

python pull_queue_snippets.py pull-and-ack-task --project=$PROJECT_ID --queue=$QUEUE_ID --location=$LOCATION_ID

Note that usually, there would be a processing step in between pulling a task and acknowledging it.