Helper to simply implement a worker RSMQ ( Redis Simple Message Queue ).

:warning: Note: RSMQ uses the Redis EVAL command (LUA scripts) so the minimum Redis version is 2.6+.

Install

  npm install rsmq-worker

Initialize

  new RSMQWorker( queuename, options );

Example:

  var RSMQWorker = require( "rsmq-worker" );
  var worker = new RSMQWorker( "myqueue" );

  worker.on( "message", function( msg, next, id ){
  	// process your message
  	console.log("Message id : " + id);
  	console.log(msg);
  	next()
  });

  // optional error listeners
  worker.on('error', function( err, msg ){
      console.log( "ERROR", err, msg.id );
  });
  worker.on('exceeded', function( msg ){
      console.log( "EXCEEDED", msg.id );
  });
  worker.on('timeout', function( msg ){
      console.log( "TIMEOUT", msg.id, msg.rc );
  });

  worker.start();

Config

• queuename: ( String required ) The queuename to pull the messages
• options ( Object optional ) The configuration object
  • options.interval: ( Number[] optional; default = [ 0, 1, 5, 10 ] ) An Array of increasing wait times in seconds. More details
  • options.maxReceiveCount: ( Number optional; default = 10 ) Receive count until a message will be exceeded
  • options.invisibletime: ( Number optional; default = 30 ) A time in seconds to hide a message after it has been received.
  • options.defaultDelay: ( Number optional; default = 1 ) The default delay in seconds for for sending new messages to the queue.
  • options.autostart: ( Boolean optional; default = false ) Autostart the worker on init
  • options.timeout: ( Number optional; default = 3000 ) Message processing timeout in ms. So you have to call the next() method of message at least after e.g. 3000ms. If set to 0 it'll wait until infinity.
  • options.customExceedCheck: ( Function optional; ) A custom function, with the raw message (see message format) as argument to build a custom exceed check. If you return a true the message will not exceed. On return false the regular check for maxReceiveCount will be used.
  • options.alwaysLogErrors: ( Boolean optional; default = false ) An error will be logged to the console even if an error listener has been attached.
  • options.rsmq: ( RedisSMQ optional; default = null ) A already existing rsmq instance to use instead of creating a new client
  • options.redis: ( RedisClient optional; default = null ) A already existing redis client instance to use if no rsmq instance has been defined
  • options.redisPrefix: ( String optional; default = "" ) The redis prefix/namespace for rsmq if no rsmq instance has been defined. This has to match the option ns of RSMQ.
  • options.host: ( String optional; default = "localhost" ) Host to connect to redis if no rsmq or redis instance has been defined
  • options.port: ( Number optional; default = 6379 ) Port to connect to redis if no rsmq or redis instance has been defined
  • options.options: ( Object optional; default = {} ) Options to connect to redis if no rsmq or redis instance has been defined

Raw message format

A message ( e.g. received by the event data or customExceedCheck ) contains the following keys:

• msg.message : ( String ) The queue message content. You can use complex content by using a stringified JSON.
• msg.id : ( String ) The rsmq internal message id
• msg.sent : ( Number ) Timestamp of when this message was sent / created.
• msg.fr : ( Number ) Timestamp of when this message was first received.
• msg.rc : ( Number ) Number of times this message was received.

Methods

.start()

If you haven't defined the config autostart to true you have to call the .start() method.

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

.stop()

Just stop the receive interval. This will not cut the connection to rsmq/redis. If you want you script to end call .quit()

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

.send( msg [, delay ][, cb ] )

Helper function to simply send a message in the configured queue.

Arguments

• msg : ( String required ): The rsmq message. In best practice it's a stringified JSON with additional data.
• delay : ( Number optional; default = 0 ): The message delay to hide this message for the next x seconds.
• cb : ( Function optional ): An optional callback to get a secure response for a successful send.

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

.del( id [, cb ] )

Helper function to simply delete a message after it has been processed.

Arguments

• id : ( String required ): The rsmq message id.
• cb : ( Function optional ): A optional callback to get a secure response for a successful delete.

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

.changeInterval( interval )

Change the interval timeouts in operation.

Arguments

• interval : ( Number|Array required ): The new interval.

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

.quit()

Stop the worker and close the connection. After this it's no longer possible to reuse the worker-instance. It's just intended to kill all timers and connections so your script will end.

.info( cb )

Get the current queue attributes. This is just a shortcut to the rsmq.getQueueAttributes.

Arguments

• cb : ( Function ): Callback with ( err, attributes ). See rsmq-docs for details.

.size( [hidden=false], cb )

Get the current queue size.

Arguments

• hidden : ( Boolean optional; default = false ): The count of messages including the currently hidden/"in flight" messages.
• cb : ( Function optional ): Callback with ( err, size ). The size is a Number and represents the number of messages in the queue. If hidden=true you will receive the number of currently hidden messages.

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

Events

message

Main event to catch and process a message. If you do not set a handler for this Event nothing will happen.

Example:

worker.on( "message", function( message, next, msgid ){
	// process message ... 
	next();
});

Arguments

• message : ( String ) The queue message content to process. You can use complex content by using a stringified JSON.
• next : ( Function ) A function you have to call when your message has been processed.
  Arguments
  • delete: ( Boolean|Error optional; default = true ) Error: If you return an error it will emitted as an error event; Boolean: It's possible to prevent the worker from auto-delete the message on end. This is useful if you want to pop up a message multiple times. To implement this, please check the config options.customExceedCheck
• msgid : ( String ) The message id. This is useful if you want to delete a message manually.

ready

Fired until the worker is connected to rsmq/redis and has been initialized with the given queuename.

data

The raw event when a message has been received.

Arguments

• msg : ( String ) The raw rsmq message. ( See section Raw message format )

deleted

Fired after a message has been deleted.

Arguments

• id : ( String ) The rsmq message id

exceeded

Fired after a message has been exceeded and immediately will be deleted.

Arguments

• msg : ( String ) The raw rsmq message. ( See section Raw message format )

timeout

Fired if a message processing exceeds the configured timeout.

Arguments

• msg : ( String ) The raw rsmq message. ( See section Raw message format )

error

Fired if a message processing throws an error.

Arguments

• err : ( Error|Any ) The thrown error
• msg : ( String ) The raw rsmq message. ( See section Raw message format )

Advanced example

This is an advanced example showing some features in action.

	var fs = require( "fs" );
	var RSMQWorker = require( "rsmq-worker" );

	var fnCheck = function( msg ){
		// check function to not exceed the message if the content is `createmessages`
		if( msg.message === "createmessages" ){
			return true
		}
		return false
	}

	
	var worker = new RSMQWorker( "myqueue", {
		interval: [ .1, 1 ],				// wait 100ms between every receive and step up to 1,3 on empty receives
		invisibletime: 2,						// hide received message for 5 sec
		maxReceiveCount: 2,					// only receive a message 2 times until delete
		autostart: true,						// start worker on init
		customExceedCheck: fnCheck	// set the custom exceed check
	});

	// Listen to errors
	worker.on('error', function( err, msg ){
	    console.log( "ERROR", err, msg.id );
	});
	worker.on('timeout', function( msg ){
	    console.log( "TIMEOUT", msg.id, msg.rc );
	});
	
	// handle exceeded messages
	// grab the internal rsmq instance
	var rsmq = worker._getRsmq();
	worker.on('exceeded', function( msg ){
		console.log( "EXCEEDED", msg.id );
		// NOTE: make sure this queue exists
		rsmq.sendMessage( "YOUR_EXCEEDED_QUEUE", msq, function( err, resp ){
			if( err ){
				console.error( "write-to-exceeded-queue", err )
			}
		});
	});

	// listen to messages
	worker.on( "message", function( message, next, id ){
		
		console.log( "message", message );
		
		if( message === "createmessages" ){
			next( false )
			worker.send( JSON.stringify( { type: "writefile", filename: "./test.txt", txt: "Foo Bar" } ) );
			worker.send( JSON.stringify( { type: "deletefile", filename: "./test.txt" } ) );
			return	
		}

		var _data = JSON.parse( message )
		switch( _data.type ){
			case "writefile": 
				fs.writeFile( _data.filename, _data.txt, function( err ){
					if( err ){
						next( err );
					}else{
						next()
					}
				});
				break;
			case "deletefile": 
				fs.unlink( _data.filename, function( err ){
					if( err ){
						next( err );
					}else{
						next()
					}
				});
				break;
		}
		
	});

	worker.send( "createmessages" );

Details

Options interval

The option interval can:

A.) be a Number so the worker will poll the queue every n seconds (e.g. interval: .5 = twice a second second)

B.) be an Array of Numbers. On start interval[0] is the time to poll the queue. Everytime the worker receives an empty response (queue is empty) the next interval will be used to wait for the next poll (interval[+1]) until the last definition interval[ n ] was reached. On every received message the wait time will be reset to interval[0].

E.g: interval: [ .2, 1, 3 ]

• 1st poll -> no message -> wait .2s = 200ms
• 2nd poll -> no message -> wait 1s
• 3rd poll -> no message -> wait 3s
• 4th poll -> no message -> wait 3s
• 5th poll -> 1 message -> wait .2s
• 6th poll -> no message -> wait 1s
• 7th poll -> 1 message -> wait .2s
• 8th poll -> 1 message -> wait .2s
• 9th poll -> no message -> wait .2s
• 10th poll -> no message -> wait 1s ...

Todos/Ideas

• MORE tests!
• Optional parallel execution. To do multiple receives in parallel.
• Automatic write of exceeded messages to a configured queue.

Release History

|Version|Date|Description| |:--:|:--:|:--| |0.5.2|2016-10-24|Optimized README and updated dependencies| |0.5.1|2016-08-22|Fixed reconnect error Issue#20. Thanks to mstduff; updated deps; removed generated code docs from repo| |0.5.0|2016-07-14|Added methods .info(cb) (Issue#17) and .size( [hidden,] cb )| |0.4.3|2016-06-20|Optimized event listeners Issue#15. Thanks to Kevin Turner| |0.4.2|2016-05-06|Added the .quit() function Issue#11. Thanks to Sam Fung| |0.4.1|2016-04-05|Fixed missing isNumber function| |0.4.0|2016-03-30|Updated dependencies (especially lodash to 4.x). Fixed a config bug caused by the array merge from extend Issue#7. Thanks to Peter Hanneman| |0.3.8|2015-11-04|Fixed stop behavior. Pull#5. Thanks to Exinferis| |0.3.7|2015-09-02|Added tests to check the behavior during errors within message processing; Added option alwaysLogErrors to prevent console logs if an error event handler was attached. Issue #3| |0.3.6|2015-09-02|Updated dependencies; optimized readme (thanks to Tobias Lidskog for the pull #4)| |0.3.5|2015-04-27|again ... fixed argument dispatch for .send()| |0.3.4|2015-04-27|fixed argument dispatch for .send() and added optional cb for .del()| |0.3.3|2015-03-27|added changeInterval to modify the interval in operation| |0.3.2|2015-02-23|changed default prefix/namespace;| |0.3.0|2015-02-16|It's now possible to return an error as first argument of next. This will lead to an error emit + optimized readme| |0.2.2|2015-01-27|added option defaultDelay and optimized arguments of the send method; fixed travis.yml| |0.2.0|2015-01-27|Added timeout, better error handling and send callback| |0.1.2|2015-01-20|Reorganized code, added code docs and optimized readme| |0.1.1|2015-01-17|Added test scripts and optimized repository file list| |0.1.0|2015-01-16|First working and documented version |0.0.1|2015-01-14|Initial commit|

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