Welcome to the third day of Pro v1.5 Launch Week!
Today, we’re focused on a single, powerful new feature. One that simplifies how applications can define, configure, and compose jobs.
Job Decorator
The new Oban.Pro.Decorator module converts functions into Oban jobs with a teeny-tiny @job true
annotation. Decorated functions, such as those in contexts or other non-worker modules, can be
executed as fully fledged background jobs with retries, priority, scheduling, uniqueness, and all
the other guarantees you have come to expect from Oban jobs.
See the decorator in action:
Decorated jobs are a convenient way to run functions in the background, but there’s abundance within.
Advanced Decorators
The @job decorator also supports most standard Job options, validated at compile time.
As expected, the options can be overridden at runtime through an additional generated clause. Along
with generated insert_ functions, there’s also a new_ variant that be used to build up job
changesets for bulk insert, and a relay_ variant that operates like a distributed async/await.
Any Elixir term may be passed as an argument, not just JSON encodable values. That enables passing native data-types such as tuples, keywords, or structs that can’t easily be used in regular jobs.
Finally, the generated functions also respect patterns and guards, so you can write assertive clauses that defend against bad inputs or break logic into multiple clauses.
Check it out:
Imagine the possibilities when you combine the flexibility of decorated functions with distributed execution with FLAME. Dramatic pause… You can take a standard Elixir function and make it asynchronous, persistent, and scale it elastically with a few lines of code 🪄🧙. More on that soon…
More Launch Week
- Day 1 — Unified Migrations, Preemptive Chaining, and Worker Aliases
- Day 2 — Enhanced Uniqueness and Distributed PostgreSQL
- Day 4 — Overhauled Batches and Improved Workflows
- Day 5 — Hybrid Compositions and Release Day
See you again tomorrow!
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