getting result in short running celery task (Django)

Question

What is the best way to implement getting result in short running celery task (3-7 seconds) ?

For now i use this method below.

User clicks button which send request to api - api triggers celery task and returns task_id
Then we are checking result of task_id via Ajax

UPDATE: question should be closed at it has no difference between getting result from long running task .

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

As a general rule (with all background tasks, not just Celery/Django) that's actually your best bet. The same pattern emerges

User makes HTTP request
Server kicks off background service (either through Celergy, some other async. service, or even through a command line execution (<- don't do that if you can avoid it)) and returns some form of identifier
User agent makes new HTTP request to get information about state of new service/process.

You should check out long polling

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