@desmart/queue

This package provides a unified API across a variety of different queue backends.

• @desmart/queue
• installation
• example
• job
  • creating new job
  • handlers
  • pushing to queue backend
• listening to new jobs
• connectors
  • api
• middlewares
  • adding middleware
  • bundled middlewares
    • autoCommit
    • maxAttempts
    • debug
• development
  • tests & linting
  • general practices
  • issues & PR

installation

npm i @desmart/queue

example

const { manager, job } = require('@desmart/queue')
const { syncConnector } = require('@desmart/queue/connector')

const queue = manager(syncConnector())

// syncConnector will dispatch job immediately
// in this case it's required to attach listeners before job is pushed to queue
queue.handle('example.job', ({ name, queue, payload, attempts }) => {
    console.log(name) // example.job
    console.log(queue) // default
    console.log(payload) // { foo: 'bar' }
    console.log(attempts) // 1
})

queue.push(job.of('example.job', { foo: 'bar' }))

job

Job contains information regarding task that should be handled:

• name (String) name of the job
• queue (String) name of the queue on which message had been sent
• attempts (Number)
• payload (Object)
• remove() (Function) remove message from the queue backend; has to be triggered once job is processed
• release(delay = 0) (Function) put job back to queue backend; optionally it can be delayed by given number of seconds

creating new job

To create Job instance you can use .of() static method:

const { job } = require('@desmart/queue')
job.of(name, payload, queue)

payload and queue are optional. By default job will use default queue.

handlers

Each job received by queue backend will be dispatched to it's handler. Job can have only one dedicated handler.

queue.handle('example.job', ({ name, queue, payload, attempts }) => {
    console.log(name) // example.job
    console.log(queue) // default
    console.log(payload) // { foo: 'bar' }
    console.log(attempts) // 1
})

pushing to queue backend

Every job can be pushed through manager to queue backend:

queue.push(job.of('example.job', { foo: 'bar' }))

listening to new jobs

By default manager will not listen for incoming jobs.

To start listening for new jobs it's required to call listen() method.
Listener will wait for new queue messages, convert them to Job object and pass it to bound handler.

By default listener will check for messages in default queue.

manager.listen(queue)

connectors

Queue manager uses connectors to handle various queue backends.

This package provides two basic connectors:

• syncConnector fires immediately pushed to queue job
• nullConnector drops all pushed to queue jobs

api

Each connector has to implement following methods:

• onJob(fn) accepts callback which should receive Job instance once new message is retrieved from backend
• push(job) push job to queue backend

middlewares

It's possible to extend behaviour of manager with middlewares.

Middleware is a function which should accept job and next callback. It's triggered once a job is fetched from backend and redirected to handler.
Through middleware it's possible to modify job (note that job is immutable), or do some other stuff. Don't forget to call next once you want to pass control to another middleware.

Every middleware should (if possible) return the result of next(). Remember also that other middlewares may return a Promise so async/await may be useful here.

adding middleware

const { manager, job } = require('@desmart/queue')
const { autoCommit } = require('@desmart/queue/middleware')
const { syncConnector } = require('@desmart/queue/connector')

const queue = manager(syncConnector())
queue.use(autoCommit())

// each handle will be converted to terminating middleware - add them after all middlewares
queue.handle('job', () => {})

bundled middlewares

Package comes with some bundled middlewares. They can be imported from @desmart/queue/middleware module.

autoCommit

const { autoCommit } = require('@desmart/queue/middleware')

queue.use(autoCommit({
  exponential: true,
  maxDelay: 6 * 3600
}))

Waits for job to finish and removes it from queue. If job failed it will be released back to queue.
This will works only when job handler returns a Promise.

Job is released with exponential delay. After first attempt it will be released without a delay, with second attempt it will be delayed by 5 seconds, later by 15 seconds and so on.. By defualt, after multiple fails, job will be delayed by 6 hours.

Available options:

• exponential (Boolean) [true] should failed job be released with exponential delay
• maxDelay (Integer) [21600] maximum delay for failed jobs; used only when exponential == true

maxAttempts

const { maxAttempts } = require('@desmart/queue/middleware')

queue.use(maxAttempts(max = 3))

Removes automatically a job which failed more than max times.

debug

const { debug } = require('@desmart/queue/middleware')

queue.use(debug())

Small utility which uses debug to print information about processed job status.

This middleware has to be used before autoCommit.

development

If you're planning to contribute to the package please make sure to adhere to following conventions.

tests & linting

1. lint your code using standard; run npm run lint to check if there are any linting errors
2. make sure to write tests for all the changes/bug fixes

general practices

We're not looking back! You are encouraged to use all features from ES6.
This package follows functional approach - if possible use pure functions, avoid classes etc.

issues & PR

1. try to provide regression test when you find a bug
2. share some context on what you are trying to do, with enough code to reproduce the issue