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Running zappa.async tasks outside of Lambda [DOCUMENTATION]

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#1124 opened on Sep 22, 2017

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Description

Currently porting over some Celery tasks to Zappa ones. One concern I have is that celery has a setting called ALWAYS_EAGER which causes it to skip the queue and run immediately, this is useful when testing simple cases and during simple local development.

I've looked but haven't found a out of the box way to to do this with Zappa. I'm considering implementing a ZAPPA_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER toggle in my own code which would swap out the decorator for no decorator which should do the trick but it seems generally useful.

So I'm happy to fork and PR something if folks thinks its useful.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backendcloud
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Zappa async tasksFamiliarity with Celery ALWAYS EAGER
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
45
Research direction
Review the issue comments for any additional context. Examine Zappa's async task implementation in the source code (likely in `zappa/async.py` or similar). The user suggests implementing a `ZAPPA TASK ALWAYS EAGER` toggle; consider how Celery's ALWAYS EAGER works and how to integrate a similar flag into Zappa's decorator logic. Note that the issue is old and the repository may have changed; check if a similar feature has been added elsewhere.