Skip feature

[andrewtamura]

Would you be open to adding a skip feature like this? I can write all the tests

[behrad]

I think this will complicate user's app job management, why not to fail and let that job retry later !?
or event create a new job based on current...
Can't see whats behind this @andrewtamura

[andrewtamura]

I've read through the docs and code again and I think I see what you are saying.

If I have 100 jobs like this:

 queue.create('email', {
     title: 'welcome email for tj'
   , to: 'tj@learnboost.com'
   , template: 'welcome-email'
 }).attempts(5).backoff({type:'exponential'}).save();

and process them like this:

queue.process('email', 10, function(job, done){
    var err = new Error('Don't do the job, just fail it');
    done(err);
});

My 10 concurrent workers will take the first 10 jobs and fail them immediately. Then because the jobs have attempts and backoff set, they will not be failed but they will instead be delayed and my 10 workers will immediately process the next 10 jobs in the queue?

[behrad]

Yes.
.attempts(5) makes them to be queued/delayed again (=retry), and since you have not set a delay they will be queued immediately :)

[behrad]

not selected to be added to Kue for now.