Celery gives no error with bad remote task names, why?

Question

Using "send_task" celery actually never verifies a remote task exists ie:

app.send_task('tasks.i.dont.exist', args=[], kwargs={})

Celery seems to still return a message ie:

<AsyncResult: b8c1425a-7411-491f-b75a-34313832b8ba>

Is there a way for it to fail if the remote task does not exist?

I've tried adding .get() and it just freezes.

Answer 1

According to the documentation:

If the task is not registered in the current process then you can also execute a task by name.

You do this by using the send_task() method of the celery instance

If you want verification consider using delay instead.

You can read more about how to execute celery tasks here .