Reset visibilityTimeout

[Homer1991]

Is there a way to tell rqueue to reset the timeout for a job. For example when we have jobs where we don't know how long they will take. Is there a way to tell rqueue not to give this task to another listener because im still working on it.

I thought that job.checkIn(...) is maybe doing that but i guess it's not.

[sonus21]

May I know whats the reason that you don't know how much time this job will take?

I thought that job.checkIn(...) is maybe doing that but i guess it's not.

You're absolutely right, it's for a different use case, this just tells that a job is running and displays job's progress/status in the dashboard, can be used for loader/progress purpose.

[Homer1991]

I could imagine it working like job.checkIn(...) would call this every x amount of seconds to reset the timeout. So is would be like a heartbeat but via push instead of poll.
In our usecase these tasks would not be that frequent so i guess the increased amount of redis calls would not be an issue for this usecase but not sure yet.

As workaround i can only imagine spilting up the task in chunks with a predictable amount of time needed to complete it.
But i will also look into other solutions, maybe there is something out there that already has this functionalliy.

[sonus21]

Thanks for the detail, it will be added in next release likely this weekend only.

[Homer1991]

That would be awesome thanks.

[Homer1991]

Hey @sonus21 do you have a rough estimation for version 2.8.0 or can the snapshot version be downloaded somewere? Last time i tried to include the snapshot its seemed to not be published.

[sonus21]

Sorry there's some issue with sonatype release, I'm waiting for that from last week.

You can get the snapshot here https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/github/sonus21/

[sonus21]

@Homer1991
Version 2.8.0 has been released, job has new apis to increase/decrease the visibility timeout.

Usage
Increase visibility timeout by 100 seconds

job.updateVisibilityTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(100));

Decrease visibility timeout by 100 seconds

job.updateVisibilityTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(-100));

[Homer1991]

nice awesome thanks :)