Is there a way to have tasks be submitted without calling .submit()

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

Currently, if you want to submit a task to a TaskRunner, you have to call the .submit() attribute of the Task object. However, this relies the user to modify their underlying Python code, which seems to go against the basic principle behind Prefect. Are there alternate ways to do this?

Current approach:

from prefect import task

@task
def add(a, b):
    return a + b

add.submit(add.submit(1, 2), 3)

Note how this is different than the typical add(add(1, 2), 3). When making a Flow, this means that the workflow itself will have to be modified to make .submit() calls for each Task.

I was hoping there might be some way that I could have all tasks automatically submitted to the TaskRunner if specified via some kwarg in the @flow decorator, but I didn't see such a mechanism.

[discdiver]

Interesting idea! Please feel free to open a feature enhancement issue to share this idea with the team and track it.