Return data from Laravel Jobs

Question

I am developing API on Laravel for mobile application.

Methods will make requests to other API\'s, combine and filter data, changing it\'s stru

Answer 1

You are returning data in your Job class, but assigning $data to a dispatcher - note that dispatch() method is not a part of your Job class.

You could try something like this, assuming that your jobs run synchronously:

private $apiActionName;
private $response;

public function __construct($apiActionName)
{
    $this->apiActionName = $apiActionName;
}

public function handle(SomeService $someService)
{
    $this->response = $someService->{$this->apiActionName}();
}

public function getResponse()
{
    return $this->response;
}

And then in your controller:

public function someAction()
{ 
    $job = new MyJob($apiActionName);
    $data = $this->dispatch($job);
    return response()->json($job->getResponse());
}

Obviously, this won't work once you move to async mode and queues - response won't be there yet by the time you call getResponse(). But that's the whole purpose of async jobs :)