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mongodb-utils / mkue

MongoDB-based job queuing system
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Docs/thoughts on retries and error tracking #2

Open focusaurus opened 9 years ago

focusaurus commented 9 years ago

Based on the README it's not clear if this module allows for a job to fail and be retried later, and if so, how metadata about that failure (like connection refused when trying to send an outgoing email) should be recorded. Or is your thought that as far as the queue is concerned, the attempt is the job and if that fails, noting that failure is up to the app and the app should dispatch a retry job into the queue?

jonathanong commented 9 years ago

i dont think is module is designed for emails. don't email services have their own queueing systems? its more for map/reduce jobs where you want to save the output, and if it errors, you can just run it again (which you're going to do anyways).

however, retries is something i do want to add. right now, you'll look for jobs that are .processed and have a .error

focusaurus commented 9 years ago

Yes, they do, but that doesn't help when you can't connect to email services or they are throwing retry-able errors.