Algolia: Use Celery to push user updates in a background task.

pillar/api/users/hooks.py

@@ -62,14 +62,9 @@ def before_replacing_user(request, lookup):
 def push_updated_user_to_algolia(user, original):
     """Push an update to the Algolia index when a user item is updated"""
 
-    from algoliasearch.helpers import AlgoliaException
-    from pillar.api.utils.algolia import algolia_index_user_save
+    from pillar.celery import algolia_tasks
 
-    try:
-        algolia_index_user_save(user)
-    except AlgoliaException as ex:
-        log.warning('Unable to push user info to Algolia for user "%s", id=%s; %s',
-                    user.get('username'), user.get('_id'), ex)
+    algolia_tasks.push_updated_user_to_algolia.delay(str(user['_id']))
 
 
 def send_blinker_signal_roles_changed(user, original):

pillar/celery/algolia_tasks.py

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import logging
+
+import bson
+
+from pillar import current_app
+
+from .celery_cfg import celery_cfg
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@celery_cfg.task(ignore_result=True)
+def push_updated_user_to_algolia(user_id: str):
+    """Push an update to the Algolia index when a user item is updated"""
+
+    from algoliasearch.helpers import AlgoliaException
+    from pillar.api.utils.algolia import algolia_index_user_save
+
+    user_oid = bson.ObjectId(user_id)
+    log.info('Retrieving user %s', user_oid)
+    users_coll = current_app.db('users')
+    user = users_coll.find_one({'_id': user_oid})
+
+    try:
+        algolia_index_user_save(user)
+    except AlgoliaException as ex:
+        log.warning('Unable to push user info to Algolia for user "%s", id=%s; %s',
+                    user.get('username'), user.get('_id'), ex)

pillar/celery/celery_cfg.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from celery import Celery
 
 task_modules = [
     'pillar.celery.tasks',
+    'pillar.celery.algolia_tasks',
 ]
 
 celery_cfg = Celery('proj',