Minion: Fail early

[augensalat]

My application has to check a remote service that processes some long running task and eventually returns success or failure.
For that a minion task is enqueued with attempts => 15.

• As soon as the remote side returns "success" a $job->finish terminates the job on my side.
• If the remote does not deliver a final result within the 15 attempts, Minion terminates the job with a failed state.
• In case the remote delivers a final "failed" result within the 15 attempts, I would like to also terminate the job with a failed state and keep it from further attempts, but currently I do not find a way to accomplish this - calling $job->fail and i.e. setting attempts = 1 does not seem possible - the only way that seems to work is $job->finish, which means success.

Am I just missing the right button or is not possible?

[kraih]

You have to retry to change attempts and then fail afterwards.

[kraih]

I suppose it might be worth considering support for $job->fail('reason', {attempts => 1}).

[augensalat]

You have to retry to change attempts and then fail afterwards.

But this means I had to retry once more even though I already received the final result in the current attempt, right?

[augensalat]

I suppose it might be worth considering support for $job->fail('reason', {attempts => 1}).

Or, since I currently cannot imagine a use case with other parameters than this (and also setting attempts to 1 in order to stop retries requires a certain understanding about the inner processes), why not something like $job->fail_without_retry('reason') - or simply $job->abort('reason')?

[kraih]

You can retry into a named queue no worker handles. I don't want to bikeshed about the API, so i'm leaving the discussion here.

[augensalat]

You can retry into a named queue no worker handles.

I must admit that I have no idea what you mean by that...