Job Options

Description

To process anything using rethinkdb-job-queue you need to create Job objects. These Job objects are created by using Queue.createJob. When a job is created there are four options available for you to customize how the job is processed within the queue.

• priority
• timeout
• retryMax
• retryDelay

Job Priority Option

The priority option allows you to control the order of processing for the jobs in the queue.

There are seven priority values as follows:

Name	Number	Description
lowest	60	The last jobs to get processed
low	50	Not as important and a typical job
normal	40	The default job priority
medium	30	For more important jobs
high	20	Need to be processed first
highest	10	These jobs will be processed before all others

The Number column in the table above is showing the value that gets stored in the database for a specific priority. Jobs within your code have the Name values above. These names get converted to numbers on adding the job to the queue.

A higher priority job will always get processed by the queue before the lower priority jobs. As an example, if you have 100 'normal' priority jobs, and you add a 'medium' priority job to the queue, the 'medium' priority job will be the next job to get processed.

Job Timeout Option

Job retryMax Option

Job retryDelay Option