tasqueue

Promise-based Node.js job/task-queue library using disque.

How it works

1. Create a client
2. Register new job types handlers
3. Push jobs

Tasqueue is a job/task-queue library based on disque and using Q. It aims to be simple, fast and to handle a high charge.

Monitoring functions of Tasqueue can only be entrusted when using a single-node instance of disque.

Create a client

var Tasqueue = require('tasqueue');

// Default options
var opts = {
    authPass:      null,            // AUTH password for disque-server
    host:          'localhost',     // disque-server host
    port:          7711,            // disque-server port
    pollDelay:     1000 * 15,       // Polling delay in ms when no workers are available
    jobTimeout:    1000 * 60 * 60,  // Timeout in ms before a job is considered as failed
    failedTTL:     60 * 60 * 24,    // Failed jobs TTL in sec
    completedTTL:  60 * 60 * 24,    // Completed jobs TTL in sec
    queuedTTL:     60 * 60 * 24,    // Queued jobs TTL in sec
    activeTTL:     60 * 60 * 1,     // Active job TTL in sec
    maxAttempts:   60,              // Max reconnection attempts
    retryMaxDelay: 1000 * 60        // Prevent exponential reconnection delay
};

var tasqueue = new Tasqueue(opts);

Queue API

tasqueue.init()

Async:
Initialize the client.

Example

tasqueue.init()
.then(function() {
    // Start working
}, function(err) {
    // Connection to disque-server failed
});

tasqueue.shutdown(timeoutMs, callback)

Async:
End the client.

Example

tasqueue.init()
.then(function() {
    // ...
    tasqueue.shutdown(1000, function() {
        console.log('Tasqueue was shut down after at most 1000 ms.');
    });
});

tasqueue.poll()

Start polling and jobs execution. This function should be run only once.

Example

tasqueue.init()
.then(function() {
    tasqueue.poll();
});

tasqueue.registerHandler(handler)

Register a job handler. handler should have the following properties:

var handler = {
  type: 'jobType', // {String}  will be used as the queue name
  concurrency: 5,  // {Integer} max number of concurrent workers for this type, default = 1
  maxAttempts: 5,  // {Integer} max number of retry for this job type, default = 1
  exec: function(body) {
    // do whatever using the body passed for this job
  }
};

tasqueue.listHandlers()

List of registered handlers types as an array.

Example

var handler1 = { type: 'type:1', ... };
var handler2 = { type: 'type:2', ... };

tasqueue.registerHandler(handler1);
tasqueue.registerHandler(handler2);
var registeredHandlers = tasqueue.listHandlers();
// registeredHandlers equals ['type:1', 'type:2']

tasqueue.pushJob(jobType, body)

Async:
Push a new job that will be processed by the corresponding jobType handler. The worker will call the handler’s exec function with body used as its argument.

When successful, returns the added job id.

Example

var handler1 = {
    type: 'type:1',
    exec: function(body) {
        console.log('hello '+body.name);
    }
};

tasqueue.pushJob('type:1', { name: 'Johan' })
.then(function(jobId) {
    // jobId will be a disque id
});

// After some time...
// Logs 'hello Johan'

tasqueue.getJob(id)

Async:
Returns a Job object that can be easily manipulated. You can find the API for Jobs a bit below.

The promise is rejected if the queried job doesn’t exist.

Example

tasqueue.getJob('someDisqueId')
.then(function(job) {
    console.log(job.details());
});

Count jobs

Async:
Returns the count of jobs by state.

tasqueue.count(state)

state must be one of ['active', 'queued', 'completed', 'failed'].

tasqueue.countActive()

tasqueue.countQueued()

tasqueue.countCompleted()

tasqueue.countFailed()

List jobs

Async:
Returns the list of jobs for each state and cursors to paginate through the jobs.

Example

var opts = {
    start: 10,  // Start/skip cursor
    limit: 10   // Number of jobs to return
};

tasqueue.listActive(opts)
.then(function(res) {
    // res looks like
    {
        prev: 0,       // Cursor to get the previous 10 jobs or null
        next: null,    // Cursor to get the next 10 jobs or null
        list: [ ... ]  // List of Jobs objects
    }
});

tasqueue.list(state)

state must be one of ['active', 'queued', 'completed', 'failed'].

tasqueue.listActive()

tasqueue.listQueued()

tasqueue.listCompleted()

tasqueue.listFailed()

Jobs API

job.details()

Get the job’s informations in a pretty form.

Example

tasqueue.getJob('someId')
.then(function(job) {
    console.log(job.details());
    {
        id:         {String},
        type:       {String},
        body:       {Object},
        state:      {String} - one of ['queued', 'active', 'completed', 'failed']
        created:    {Date},
        ended:      {Date},
        attempt:    {Number} - Attempt at which the job failed/completed,
        duration:   {Number} - in ms,
        result:     {Object} - anything returned by the exec function on success,
        error:      {Error} - details about why the job failed
    }
});

job.cancel()

Async:
Cancels the job and set it as failed.

Only queued jobs may be cancelled. The promise is rejected if the job is not in the queued state.

job.delete()

Async:
Utterly delete a job, whichever its state is.

Events

Tasqueue inherits the Node.js EventEmitter class. Below is the list of all events emitted by tasqueue during execution:

Client

Client connection

emit('client:connected', {
    // disque-server informations client is connected to
    host: {String},
    port: {Number}
});

Client closed

emit('client:closed');

Queue execution

Polling jobs

emit('client:polling', {
    types:            {Number}, // Number of available job types that can be processed by this poll
    availableWorkers: {Number}, // Total number of available workers for these types
    totalWorkers:     {Number}  // Total number of workers registered
});

Polling delayed

emit('client:delaying', {
    delay: {Number} - tasqueue instance configured/default poll delay
});

No worker available

emit('client:no-workers')

Error while polling

emit('error:polling', error);

Jobs

Job started

emit('job:started', {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Job successfully pushed

emit('job:pushed', {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Job successfully canceled

emit('job:canceled', {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Job successfully deleted

emit('job:deleted', {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Job re-queued after failure

emit('job:requeued', {
    id:      {String}, // The job id
    type:    {String}, // The job type
    attempt: {Number}  // The last failed attempt for this job
});

Job passed

emit('job:success', {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Job failed

emit('error:job-failed', error, {
    id:    {String}, // The job id
    type:  {String}  // The job type
});

Error canceling a job

emit('error:job-cancel', error, {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

No handler registered for a job

emit('error:no-handler', error, {
    id:   {String}, // The job id
    type: {String}  // The job type
});

Handlers

Handler successfully registered

emit('handler:registered', {
    handler.type
});

Error: handler already exists

emit('error:existing-handler', error, {
    type: handler.type
});