From 15b69ae37b8dcfdb9565d95d0cd297911dfc0bd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Mathew Thomas <90510078+joelmathewthomas@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:00:40 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] set env vars necessary for celery within celery config

---
 api/celery_app.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/api/celery_app.py b/api/celery_app.py
index 12ffede..a557171 100644
--- a/api/celery_app.py
+++ b/api/celery_app.py
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
+import os
+import sys
 from celery import Celery
 
+# Automatically set environment variables in celery_app.py
+
+# Set Django settings module
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'backend.settings')
+
+# Add the project directory to sys.path (similar to the manual PYTHONPATH)
+project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+sys.path.append(project_root)
+
 app = Celery('backend')
 
 # Load configuration from Django settings, using the CELERY namespace.