Testing Push Queues in the Development Server
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This page describes some limitations with using the local development server
(dev_appserver) to test push queues in your application. In most
respects, you set up your queues and tasks just as you would to run them in the
App Engine production environment, but there are some differences:
- The development server doesn't respect the
rate and bucket-size attributes
of your queues. As a result, tasks are executed as close to their ETA as
possible. Setting a rate of 0 doesn't prevent tasks from being executed
automatically.
- The development server doesn't preserve queue state across restarts.
To prevent push tasks from running in the development server at all, use the
following JVM flag when you start the server:
dev_appserver.sh --jvm_flag=-Dtask_queue.disable_auto_task_execution=true
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Last updated 2025-03-05 UTC.
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