Object transfer between Node.js and Django using AMQP

I'm beginning with websockets and I'm very confused with the number libraries and configuration options. I just want to setup a project where a node.js server calls a method in python/django and when the last has finished, it transfers the result back to the node.js server. This is what I have so far:

Nodes.js AMQP from this tutorial:

var conn = amqp.createConnection();
conn.on('ready', function(){
 var exchange = conn.exchange('?1', {'type': 'fanout', durable: false}, function() {
     exchange.publish('?2', {add: [1,2]});
 });
});

Django Celery from this tutorial:

from celery.decorators import task

@task()
def add(x, y):
   return x + y

I don't know if this is the way to go, and I would be glad if someone could shed a light on this issue.

--- EDIT

I succeed in making a simple string transfer using AMQP:

test.py

 import pika
 connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(
    host='localhost'))
 channel = connection.channel()

 channel.queue_declare(queue='task_queue', durable=True)

 print ' [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C'

 def callback(ch, method, props, body):
     print " [x] Received %r" % (body,)
     response = body + " MODIFIED"
     #response = get_a_concept()
     print " [x] Done"
     ch.basic_publish(exchange='',
                 routing_key=props.reply_to,
                 properties=pika.BasicProperties(correlation_id = \
                                                 props.correlation_id),
                 body=str(response))
     ch.basic_ack(delivery_tag = method.delivery_tag)

channel.basic_qos(prefetch_count=1)
channel.basic_consume(callback,
                  queue='task_queue')

channel.start_consuming()

app.js

 var connection = amqp.createConnection({ host: 'localhost' });
 connection.addListener('ready', function() {


var exchange = connection.exchange('', {
    'type' : 'direct',
    durable : false
}, function() {

    var queue = connection.queue('incoming', {
        durable : false,
        exclusive : true }, function() {
        queue.subscribe(function(msg) {
            console.log("received message: ");
            console.log(msg.data.toString());
        });

    });

    exchange.publish('task_queue', "it works!", {
        'replyTo' : 'incoming'
    });
});

});


Still, I'm not sure if this is the best implementation, I'm not even using queue.bind() method here. The problem arises when I try to pass a complex object (json or even a simple array). Changing this line

 body= (["a","b","c"])#str(response)) 

causes the following error:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test.py", line 56, in <module>
     channel.start_consuming()
   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pika/adapters/blocking_connection.py", line 293, in      start_consuming
 (...)
   File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pika/simplebuffer.py", line 62, in write
     self.buf.write(data)
 TypeError: must be string or read-only character buffer, not list

Is there any solution for serializing complex objects? Am I missing something?

the body must be a byte array!

you must binary serialize your objects. but nods.jss and pythons are may be incompatible.

python: pickle node.js: rucksack on of...

a quick workaround could be to join your array to a string like this:

test.py

...
body = ';'.join(["a","b","c"]) # which will result in this string 'a;b;c'
...

and in your app.js split that string to an array.

...
result = stringResult.split(';'); //stringResult is 'a;b;c'
...

another option could be to do that asyncronous-task in node.js with 'async'