Retry failed tasks based on API availability

[arjolpanci]

Greetings,

I am currently trying to implement a task queueing system for one of my services. Rqueue seemed like the best option but I can't seem to get around this very specific scenario.

One of tasks that I am enqueuing retrieves data from an API before updating some value in a database. The problem for me though, is that this API has a very bad uptime and more often than not, the task is failing each retry as it fails to reach the API.

I want to retry these failed tasks at a later time based on this API availability (basically make a connection check, and if it passes, trigger the jobs again). Maybe a cron job that makes a connection test to the API each hour before triggering the failed queues would work, but how exactly would I trigger the tasks in the failed queues programmatically?

Thank you in advance!

[sonus21]

You can always enqueue the tasks but you can turn off the queue and turn on the queue programmatically using pauseUnpauseQueue method. Call this method using your corn job