node-pg-jobs

A simple yet flexible postgres backed job queue for node.js.

var job = require('pg-jobs')({
  db: 'postgres://localhost/mydb'
});

Creating a job is simple a matter of calling jobs.create() with a freeform object representing the job to be created, and specifying when we should consider the job for service.

/**
 * @param {Object} job The data you want to save for the job.  This is freeform
 *                     and up to you.
 * @param {int} processIn The job will not get service until this many ms have
                          elapsed. Set to null if you do not want to service it again.
 * @param {function} done Callback - called when job is enqueued (or on error).
 */
jobs.create(jobData, processIn, done);

E.g:

jobs.create({
  externalJobId: 'number1',
  state: 'ready',
  specialInstructions: 'quickly now'
}, 2000, done);

Process jobs

Providing continual service

The worker function passed to jobs.process() is the brains here. It defines what will happen when a job receives service. It is passed the job and a done callback that it should call to notify what should happen to the job after processing. The id is the id that was automatically created when the job was created.

var worker = function(id, job, done) {
 // Do stuff with job
 job.state = 'a_new_state';
 job.eatBananas = true;

 // Call done callback and update the job.  It will run again in > 200ms.
 done(null, job, 200);
}

/**
 * Iterate through all scheduled jobs and service those that have served out
   their delay.
 * @param {function(job, done)} worker The callback to be called on each job.
 *                                       Must call done() as per example above.
 * @param {function(err)} done Called when stopProcessing() is called or on fatal error.
 */
jobs.process(worker, done);

/**
 * Call this to stop processing.
 */
jobs.stopProcessing();

Note that jobs.process() is synchronous (processes one job after the other) but you can safely run two calls to it either in the same or different processes.

Make it happen now

If you want a job to service a job right away (due to say, some external event occurring), use processNow(). If the job is currently being serviced in a jobs.process() or another jobs.processNow() the worker will only be called when the lock has been ceded.

If the job cannot be found, callback() will be called with an error. worker() will not be called.

If the done() function passed to worker() is called with an error then no changes are made to the job, and callback will be passed that error.

var worker = function(id, jobData, done) {
 // Do stuff with job
 doSomeAction(jobData);
 jobData.state = 'a_new_state';
 jobData.eatBananas = true;

 // Call done callback and update the job.  It will run again in > 200ms.
 done(null, jobData, 200);
}

/** The job with the given id will be run now.
 * @param {int} id The ID of the job to run now.
 * @param {function} worker - The callback to be passed the job, of the same
                                form as for jobs.process().
 * @param {function} callback - callback called when everything is completed.
 */
jobs.processNow(id, worker, callback);

Running migrations

(Required to create the necessary tables etc).

npm install -g db-migrate
npm install -g pg
db-migrate up -m migrations/ --config database.json

will create "node_pg_jobs_dev".

Running migrations on heroku

This is a bit yuk, but it should work:

heroku run bash
npm install db-migrate
./node_modules/.bin/db-migrate up -m ./node_modules/pg-jobs/migrations/ --config $DATABASE_URL
exit

Development

Tests

docker-compose up pg_jobs

OR if you have a local postgres with correct user acc:

npm test

Inspect the test db

docker-compose run psql

Contributing

pg-jobs is an OPEN Open Source Project. This means that:

Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project.

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more details.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Eguene Ware <eugene@noblesamurai.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.