Prevent DeferredTask from retrying if it fails in Google App Engine

Question

I noticed that the com.google.appengine.api.taskqueue.DeferredTask in the Google Cloud retries if it throws an exception. Is there a way to have it not retry if it gets an error?

Note: using JAVA

Answer 1

With first gen GAE and Python, you can specify options to the deferred call like this:

retry = taskqueue.TaskRetryOptions(task_retry_limit=0)
deferred.defer(..., _retry_options=retry)

This will prevent the task from being retried.

If you are using second gen GAE, please update your question to indicate that.