Bump to Celery 3.1.4

Add configuration changes that disable pickle as an accepted serializer
Use the json serializer by default
Required before bumping to Celery 3.2

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 28f66ca..5f0186a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-amqplib==1.0.2
+amqp==1.3.3
 anyjson==0.3.3
-billiard==2.7.3.18
-celery==3.0.12
-kombu==2.4.8
-python-dateutil==1.5
-redis==2.7.1
-wsgiref==0.1.2
+billiard==3.3.0.7
+celery==3.1.4
+kombu==3.0.5
+pytz==2013.8
+redis==2.8.0
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index c08c357..fa6b143 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ from os import environ
 REDIS_URL = environ.get('REDISTOGO_URL', 'redis://localhost')
 
 # Setup the celery instance under the 'tasks' namespace
-celery = Celery('tasks', broker=REDIS_URL)
+app = Celery('tasks')
+
+# Use Redis as our broker and define json as the default serializer
+app.conf.update(
+    BROKER_URL=REDIS_URL,
+    CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER='json',
+    CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT=['json', 'msgpack', 'yaml']
+)
 
 # Define the fibonacci function for use in our task
 def fib(n):