Defining a Database for Queues

In order for queues to work in your app, one of your configured databases must be set as the target for queue data. To do it, in your settings.<env>.json file, on your preferred database, add the queues: true flag:

{
  "config": {
    "databases": [
      {
        "provider": "mongodb",
        "users": true,
        "queues" true,
        "options": {}
      }
    ],
    "i18n": {
      "defaultLanguage": "en-US"
    },
    "middleware": {},
    "email": {
      "from": "",
      "smtp": {
        "host": "",
        "port": 587,
        "username": "",
        "password": ""
      }
    }
  },
  "global": {},
  "public": {},
  "private": {}
}

Above, in the config.databases array, for our mongodb database, we've added the flag "queues": true. When your app server starts up, this tells Joystick to map any queues-related activity to this database and use it as the source database when running jobs in your queues.

Behind the scenes, each queue that you define will get a new collection (or table, if using a SQL-based database like PostgreSQL) with a name like queue_<queue_name>. Assuming we define a queue like notifications, we'd anticipate a collection/table like queue_notifications to be created for us on the database with the "queues": true flag specified above.