How to set retry count for Sidekiq with ActiveJob?

Question

From the Rails API, I found ActiveJob can retry_job interval:

my_job_instance.enqueue
my_job_instance.enqueue wait: 5.minutes
my_job_instance.enqueue queue: :imp         


        

Answer 1

There is a activejob-retry gem which does the job

class SiteScrapperJob < ActiveJob::Base
  include ActiveJob::Retry.new(limit: 5, strategy: :exponential)

  def perform(*args)
    # raise ErrorLoadingSite if cannot scrape
  end
end

---

Another option is to use sidekiq middleware:

First define job_options class-method which will be available in the subclasses:

class ApplicationJob < ActiveJob::Base
  def self.job_options(options)
    @job_options = options
  end

  def self.get_job_options
    @job_options || {}
  end
end

Add middleware which reads job_options from the jobs's class and writes them to the job item for sidekiq:

module Sidekiq
 class JobOptionsMiddleware

   def call(job_wrapper, item, queue, redis_pool)
     job = item['args'][0]['job_class'].constantize

     job.get_job_options
       .each{ |option, value| item[option] = value if item[option].nil? }

     yield
   end

 end

 # in sidekiq initializer

 Sidekiq.configure_client do |config|
   config.client_middleware do |chain|
     chain.add Sidekiq::JobOptionsMiddleware
   end
 end

And finally

 class SiteScrapperJob < ApplicationJob
   job_options retry: 5

   def perform
     # your code
   end
 end