Tutorial Creating a Task

Creating a task

In this tutorial, we will create, develop and execute a new task.

The task we create will be used as a functional test for func-y task engine itself. Creating a task consists of:

• Creating a yaml file to house our task
• Defining the states of our task
• Defining metadata associated with the task
• Incrementally developing task
• Debugging Task
• Running tasks as a unit test

Creating a Yaml file

For this tutorial, we are creating a func-y task to test func-y task engine itself. Func-y tasks can live anywhere in your project but we'll be putting ours in:

func-y-task-engine/tests/funcy/ We are going to be cross-cutting a number of features:

• env var preprocessing
• UUID preprocessing
• nsq plugin
• postgres plugin

Because of this we'll name our test envvar-uuid-nsq-postgres.yml