hubertlepicki

hubertlepicki

Honeydew background jobs on record update - what approach to use?

I am currently trying @koudelka 's Honeydew library hooked to Ecto models to handle background job processing in a project. So far so good, but I am a bit puzzled on how to best set it up in a way that we run a background job on each record update, not just after a record has been created.

I have opened an issue on Honeydew Github because this is something we may want to document for others in docs: https://github.com/koudelka/honeydew/issues/81

but basically my thinking is if I need to run a job after record has been created, I need to insert new record that represents this update. So, let’s say I have a Photo record, and I want to run ClassifyPhoto job after user updated the Photo. The only good solution I can think of is to create PhotoUpdate record, that belongs_to Photo, and it triggers ClassifyPhoto job.

Is this the correct solution or I am missing something?

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koudelka

koudelka

Indeed, this is not a scenario that Honeydew’s Ecto Queue was designed to solve. It’s intended for use cases where the creation of an entity implies some fixed number of different background jobs.

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