Configuring Queues

When specifying a queue, you can optionally pass an options object to customize the queue’s behavior. There’s currently 1 option you can customize:

1. maxAttempts - Default is 1. Increasing this means your job will be retried until currentAttempt <= maxAttempts.

maxAttempts

By increasing the maxAttempts for a job, you are allowing the job to be retried in the future. All jobs have a default maxAttempts of 1, so if you want a job to run at most 5 times before being marked as failed, you can set maxAttempts to 5.

import { Sidetrack } from "sidetrack";
 
const sidetrack = new Sidetrack<{
  userOnboarding: { email: string };
}>({
  databaseOptions: {
    connectionString: process.env["DATABASE_URL"]!,
  },
  queues: {
    userOnboarding: {
      handler: async (job) => {
        throw new Error("intentionally failing job");
      },
      options: {
        
maxAttempts?: number | undefinedmaxAttempts: 5,
      },
    },
  },
});
 
sidetrack.start();
 
sidetrack.insertJob("userOnboarding", { email: "a@example.com" });

This job will fail on the first run then move to retrying status since its currentAttempt (1) is less than 5. After 5 attempts, the job will transition to a status of failed.