Name field of PeriodicTask could be used for shadow name of async task

[bob-r]

Summary:

It would be nice if name field of PeriodicTask was used as a shadow name of async task. The field is unique; it is complementary to task field and useful for cases when the same function is scheduled several times with different arguments. It would be nice to search individual runs in Flower by name rather than task.

• Celery Version: 4.3.0
• Celery-Beat Version: 1.5.0

Detailed information

Current workaround for multiple schedules of the same function:

1. create multiple PeriodicTask records with different name values depending on args/kwargs
2. override shadow_name method to return the same name values depending on args/kwargs
3. result: shadow names of async tasks match PeriodicTask names