pushing queue items from php

[dvirsky]

Hi,
I'm doing a mixed php and python project using redis, and would like
to use hotqueue.
What would it take to write a php class that will be able to push jobs
to the queue? how do you manage it internall against redis?

Thanks,
Dvir

[richardhenry]

The current version of HotQueue wouldn't support that I'm afraid, at
least not easily: it expects the queue to only contain serialized
Python objects. This will likely change in the future.

Richard

[Dvir Volk]

how about changing the serialization to JSON or something cross language?

or even directly to redis as HASHes?

suppose I were to do that, how are objects saved into redis?

I'd be glad to contribute my php code back to the project of course.

[richardhenry]

I plan to make the serialization arbitrary, so that you can pass in
any serialization class that has the loads and dumps methods. This
would allow you to use JSON, or one of the JSON object pickling
libraries out there, or even to write your own serializer.

I'm not interested in adding support for other languages directly to
the HotQueue project yet, mostly because HotQueue is still in it's
infancy. However I'd certainly encourage you to launch your own
"HotQueue compatible" library in PHP.

You can see how HotQueue works internally here, take a look at the put
and get methods:

https://github.com/richardhenry/hotqueue/blob/master/hotqueue.py

The get method uses the LPOP or BLPOP command, and the put method uses
the RPUSH command.

Richard

[richardhenry]

I've added custom serialization, and written a brief tutorial on JSON
serialization:

http://richardhenry.github.com/hotqueue/tutorial.html#custom-serialization-json-etc

Hope this helps! You should be able to interchange data with PHP now.

Richard