Django-Celery - Resubmit tasks from admin page?

I'm currently working on a project using Django 1.3 with the Django-Celery app. It's pretty awesome, by the way, I suggest anyone who's not familiar with celery check it out.

I have a specific question around the admin page functionality:

We're using celery tasks to make RESTful API calls to third party partners. These calls are actually kicked off by a user action, so you could see how a celery task would be extremely useful in this case.

We have a user story around how an admin should be able to re-send a callback if it fails for some reason. Now, if the callback fails with a standard HTTP response failure, we are using the celery retry mechanism to automatically resend them at various intervals. However, these callbac开发者_开发问答ks could be to one of any thousands of partners (yea, theres a lot), and not all of them will use a standard HTTP Response code as their failure response.

Long story short, I haven't been able to find anything online that states that one can re-send a celery task through the admin interface. I was hoping that someone could shed some light on this. It seems like a pretty obvious piece of functionality to have, and if there is no such functionality I'm sure there's a good reason for it. I'd love it if there isn't a way to do it, if someone could explain the reason. Just curious to learn more about the internal workings of celery.

Thanks everyone! Sorry for my wordiness, sometimes I tend to ramble.

You can try two approaches,

1: Small hack in model:

You can use a boolean field and name it something like celery_retry and in models save method do something like this.

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    if self.celery_retry and self.user.is_superuser():
          celery_task.apply_async()
    self.celery_retry = False
    super(MyModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

This is just an idea, you can determine your own how and when to submit celery task back.

2:Extend admin template:

You can extend the admin template and put in a hyperlink to a view which resubmits the task.