Faktory Worker

A worker client for Faktory.

Documentation

Faktory Worker documentation is available at https://hexdocs.pm/faktory_worker.

Getting up and running

To get started with Faktory Worker first add the dependency to your mix.exs file.

defp deps do
  [
    {:faktory_worker, "~> 1.5.0"}
  ]
end

Faktory Worker can then be configured to start as part of your application by adding it to the Application.start/2 function.

defmodule MyApp.Application do
  use Application

  def start(_, _) do
    children = [
      FaktoryWorker
    ]

    Supervisor.start_link(children,
      strategy: :one_for_one,
      name: MyApp.Supervisor
    )
  end
end

Make sure you have configured your application to start in your mix.exs file.

def application do
  [
    mod: {MyApp.Application, []}
  ]
end

This will start Faktory Worker using the default configuration. For details on how to configure Faktory Worker see the FaktoryWorker documentation.

Next you can create a worker to handle job processing.

defmodule MyApp.SomeWorker do
  use FaktoryWorker.Job

  def perform(job_data) do
    do_some_work(job_data)
  end
end

Now you can start sending jobs to faktory and they will be automatically picked up by the worker.

:ok = MyApp.SomeWorker.perform_async("hey there!")

Sending multiple job arguments

It's possible to send more than one argument to Faktory by passing a list of data to perform_async/1. Picking up from the example in the Getting up and running section we can modify our worker by adding another perform function with an arity that matches the number of job arguments we expect to send to Faktory.

defmodule MyApp.SomeWorker do
  use FaktoryWorker.Job

  ...

  def perform(arg1, arg2) do
    do_some_work(arg1, arg2)
  end
end

With this new function in place you can now send multiple job arguments to Faktory.

:ok = MyApp.SomeWorker.perform_async(["arg 1", "arg 2"])

Configuration

The full list of configuration options are available in the Configuration documentation.

Logging

By default Faktory Worker will not output any log messages but instead emit events using the Telemetry library.

To enable the built in logging you will need to attach the default Telemetry handler provided by FaktoryWorker. The ideal place to do this is in your Application.start/2 callback.

defmodule MyApp.Application do
  use Application

  def start(_, _) do
    FaktoryWorker.attach_default_telemetry_handler()

    ...
  end
end

With this in place Faktory Worker will now output log messages for each of the events emitted.

For a full list of Faktory Worker events or for details on handling these events see the Logging documentation.

Contributing

We always appreciate contributions whether they are testing, reporting issues, feedback or submitting PRs. If you would like to work on Faktory Worker please follow the Developing section for details on how to get setup for developing and running the test suite.

Developing

Faktory Worker includes a docker compose file that provisions all of the Faktory instances required to run the test suite.

If you have docker compose installed you can run the up command from the Faktory Worker directory to start everything required.

$ docker-compose up -d
Creating faktory_worker_test          ... done
Creating faktory_worker_test_tls      ... done
Creating faktory_worker_password_test ... done

$ mix test

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