Cron job runs successfully on local development server but fails after deployed

[Kai Zhou]

I include a cron job in my app. The following is the cron.yaml:

cron:

- description: monitor the spot every 60 seconds

  url: /task/cron

  schedule: every 1 minutes

And here is the handler for "/task/cron":

class CronHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):

        courses = Course.query().fetch()

        for c in courses:

            sub, num, sec=c.key.id().split(",")

            task = taskqueue.add(url = '/task/monitor', queue_name='monitor-queue', params = {'sub':sub, 'num':num, 'sec':sec})

In the handler, a queue named "monitor-queue" is called. Here is my queue.yaml file:

queue:

- name: monitor-queue

  rate: 5/s

  bucket_size: 10

- name: notify-queue

  rate: 5/s

  bucket_size: 10

I ran my code in local development server successfully. But when I deploy my app, I get UnknownQueueError every time the cron job is executed. Here is a screenshot of the log:

Can anyone help me with this issue? Thanks!

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Zhou, 

None of your two projects seem to have a task queue; no queue is visible in the Developers' Console.  Without a queue, you get the "UnknownQueueError" error message. 

You may try deploying the queue config explicitly. Otherwise you can use the gcould app deploy <path_to_your_queue.yaml> command. 

[Kai Zhou]

Thanks George! This is just the problem.