Configurable max retries about verk

[edgurgel]

Yes, I want this feature 👍

Do you have any idea on how to approach? I can spend some time architecting the implementation details

[mitchellhenke]

@edgurgel I'm not sure. My initial thought was something like use Verk.Job with a defoverridable max_retry_count function.

[edgurgel]

What would be the most generic way to support this?

What I was thinking was: add a :max_retries key and each job can have a different max_retries. Basically when you schedule the job, the max_retries can be defined? One question would be that the "client" will need to provide this instead of the worker. It's up to discussion as the use case could be different from what I had in mind?

And then use this OR the "global" definition (which could be an Application env also)

What do you reckon?

[mitchellhenke]

My use case is that I have a number of different kinds of jobs with a varying amount of times each may be run. I think being able to set it globally, per job type, and per individual job makes sense, and I like the idea of moving it into the Job module/struct. I'm not sure I like requiring it be specified each time, though being able to configure it per job type is probably the most complex option to add.

I'll take a shot at adding global config through application env, and allowing the client to provide on a per job basis, and see how things go.

[edgurgel]

Awesome! And we can probably kinda of do all the things proposed above...

Thanks for starting this work!