How to keep a request context in a celery task, in Python Flask?

Question

Is there a way to copy the request to a celery task in Flask in such a manner that the task executes inside the request context which initiated the task?
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Answer 1

The is no out-of-the-box way to pass the request or current_user objects to the celery task as they are non serializable. But people have worked around this by creating a wrapper to call the celery task in the request context.

The Celery task in a Flask request context blog post explores this topic in detail. The gists by Xion and derived one by aviaryan with the Request Context wrapper.