Is it possible to dispatch event asynchronously without waiting?

One of my event listening task (event_handler) is taking long time to processing. So is there any way to emit the event and let it work as async function without await? Thank !!

Can you explain in more detail what you’re trying to achieve?

The event_handler entrypoint is async by default – there is no client waiting for an answer. The only thing that waits for the method to finish is the ACK of the event message. It is implemented this way to make sure that, if the worker is interrupted somehow, the message is requeued for another handler to pick up.

Hi mattbennett, Thank for your response.

My requerment is just want to dispatch the event handler without waiting, but in my case after dispatching the event_handler the EventDispatcher is keep waiting until the event_handler done process. Is ACK will respond back after the process done? or is there any configuration that I missed ?

I have attached some references to my case, as you can see there is a sleep for 20s in test event_handler. When I dispatched this event, I expected it to take less than 20 seconds, but it almost never did. As I noted, the dispatcher will complete after the event_handler done its operation.

Event dispatching service

Event listening service

Reuslt

Addition
I expected this event dispatcher to work, such as when I wrap event dispatcher in thread, since it worked when I use eventlet.spawn(event dispatcher).

You’re right to be confused. The “dispatch duration” printed should be milliseconds.

How are you running these services? It looks to me like you have not applied the eventlet monkey patch.