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Igor Artamonov
Igor Artamonov

Reputation: 35961

Retry failed Cron Task on Google Appengine

There're a very helpful feature of Push Queue Task:

If the task returns a status code outside of this range, App Engine retries the task until it succeeds.

But seems that it's not the same for Cron Task. As I see from my logs, if a Cron Task failed with 500 status code, Appengine doesn't try to retry this task.

I know that I can configure it for standard Queue (Configuring_Retry_Attempts_for_Failed_Tasks), and wondering, can I make such configuration for Cron tasks? Like a configuration for a queue named __cron?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 943

Answers (1)

aez
aez

Reputation: 2396

No, you cannot, but you can invoke a task queue from your cron, and then configure that task queue as necessary.

I asked a similar question here with the response below, and I have experimented enough with GAE cron to confirm that it does have the same configurability as a task queue.

[GAE cron] doesn't use a task queue, and the retry options for cron 'tasks' aren't configurable. The closest you can get is to do nothing in your cron 'task' except enqueue another task, which can be configured via a queue.

Upvotes: 3

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