Package 'liteq'

Title: Lightweight Portable Message Queue Using 'SQLite'
Description: Temporary and permanent message queues for R. Built on top of 'SQLite' databases. 'SQLite' provides locking, and makes it possible to detect crashed consumers. Crashed jobs can be automatically marked as "failed", or put in the queue again, potentially a limited number of times.
Authors: Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 1.1.0
Built: 2024-12-09 06:15:28 UTC
Source: https://github.com/r-lib/liteq

Help Index


Acknowledge that the work on a message has finished successfully

Description

Acknowledge that the work on a message has finished successfully

Usage

ack(message)

Arguments

message

The message object.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Consume a message from a queue

Description

Blocks and waits for a message if there isn't one to work on currently.

Usage

consume(queue, poll_interval = 500)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

poll_interval

Poll interval in milliseconds. How often to poll the queue for new jobs, if none are immediately available.

Value

A message.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Create a queue in a database

Description

It also creates the database, if it does not exist.

Usage

create_queue(name = NULL, db = default_db(), crash_strategy = "fail")

Arguments

name

Name of the queue. If not specified or NULL, a name is generated randomly.

db

Path to the database file.

crash_strategy

What to do with crashed jobs. The default is that they will "fail" (just like a negative acknowledgement). Another possibility is "requeue", in which case they are requeued immediately, potentially even multiple times. Alternatively it can be a number, in which case they are requeued at most the specified number of times.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq queues: delete_queue(), ensure_queue(), list_queues()


The name of the default database

Description

If the queue database is not specified explicitly, then liteq uses this file. Its location is determined via the rappdirs package, see rappdirs::user_data_dir().

Usage

default_db()

Value

A characater scalar, the name of the default database.


Delete a queue

Description

Delete a queue

Usage

delete_queue(queue, force = FALSE)

Arguments

queue

The queue to delete.

force

Whether to delete the queue even if it contains messages.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq queues: create_queue(), ensure_queue(), list_queues()


Make sure that a queue exists

Description

If it does not exist, then the queue will be created.

Usage

ensure_queue(name, db = default_db(), crash_strategy = "fail")

Arguments

name

Name of the queue. If not specified or NULL, a name is generated randomly.

db

Path to the database file.

crash_strategy

What to do with crashed jobs. The default is that they will "fail" (just like a negative acknowledgement). Another possibility is "requeue", in which case they are requeued immediately, potentially even multiple times. Alternatively it can be a number, in which case they are requeued at most the specified number of times.

Value

The queue object.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq queues: create_queue(), delete_queue(), list_queues()


Check if a queue is empty

Description

Check if a queue is empty

Usage

is_empty(queue)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

Value

Logical, whether the queue is empty.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


List failed messages in a queue

Description

List failed messages in a queue

Usage

list_failed_messages(queue)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

Value

Data frame with columns: id, title, status.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


List all messages in a queue

Description

List all messages in a queue

Usage

list_messages(queue)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

Value

Data frame with columns: id, title, status.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


List all queues in a database

Description

List all queues in a database

Usage

list_queues(db = default_db())

Arguments

db

The queue database to query.

Value

A list of liteq_queue objects.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq queues: create_queue(), delete_queue(), ensure_queue()


Lightweight Portable Message Queue Using 'SQLite'

Description

Message queues for R. Built on top of 'SQLite' databases.

Concurrency

liteq works with multiple producer and/or consumer processes accessing the same queue, via the locking mechanism of 'SQLite'. If a queue is locked by 'SQLite', the process that tries to access it, must wait until it is unlocked. The maximum amount of waiting time is by default 10 seconds, and it can be changed via the R_LITEQ_BUSY_TIMEOUT environment variable, in milliseconds. If you have many concurrent processes using the same liteq database, and see ⁠database locked⁠ errors, then you can try to increase the timeout value.

Examples

# We don't run this, because it writes to the cache directory
db <- tempfile()
q <- ensure_queue("jobs", db = db)
q
list_queues(db)

# Publish two messages
publish(q, title = "First message", message = "Hello world!")
publish(q, title = "Second message", message = "Hello again!")
is_empty(q)
message_count(q)
list_messages(q)

# Consume one
msg <- try_consume(q)
msg

ack(msg)
list_messages(q)
msg2 <- try_consume(q)
nack(msg2)
list_messages(q)

# No more messages
is_empty(q)
try_consume(q)

Examples

## See the manual page

Get the number of messages in a queue.

Description

Get the number of messages in a queue.

Usage

message_count(queue)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

Value

Number of messages in the queue.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Report that the work on a message has failed

Description

Report that the work on a message has failed

Usage

nack(message)

Arguments

message

The message object.

See Also

liteq for examples


Publish messages in a queue

Description

Publish messages in a queue

Usage

publish(queue, title = "", message = "")

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

title

The title of the messages. It can be the empty string.

message

The body of the messages. It can be the empty string. Must be the same length as title.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Remove failed messages from the queue

Description

Remove failed messages from the queue

Usage

remove_failed_messages(queue, id = NULL)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

id

Ids of the messages to requeue. If it is NULL, then all failed messages will be removed.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), requeue_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Requeue failed messages

Description

Requeue failed messages

Usage

requeue_failed_messages(queue, id = NULL)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

id

Ids of the messages to requeue. If it is NULL, then all failed messages will be requeued.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), try_consume()


Consume a message if there is one available

Description

Consume a message if there is one available

Usage

try_consume(queue)

Arguments

queue

The queue object.

Value

A message, or NULL if there is not message to work on.

See Also

liteq for examples

Other liteq messages: ack(), consume(), is_empty(), list_failed_messages(), list_messages(), message_count(), publish(), remove_failed_messages(), requeue_failed_messages()