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Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 3992

How to prevent retrying for some Exception/Error on sidekiq

I have a sidekiq worker which will request 3rd party api(Mailchimp) and got some response. Sometimes it will response an error message which the api gem will raise an error.

However, those Errors are normal and no need to retry. So I would like Sidekiq prevent retry when those Errors raised.

I have tried a simply rescue, but it won't prevent the sidekiq capture the error raised.

def preform(id)
  UpdateMailchimpService.new.(id)
rescue
  Mailchimp::ListInvalidBounceMemberError
end

Any way to do this? Thanks

Update

Finally found that my problem was caused by the broken of our deploy tool(deployment failed but not realised). Actually, the Sidekiq will ignore any rescued error/exception and they are not be retried and reported to Bugsnag.

In Bugsnag's documentation, it clearly said:

Bugsnag should be installed and configured, and any unhandled exceptions will be automatically detected and should appear in your Bugsnag dashboard.

This post on github didn't have an clear explanation so that's why I am confused by this question.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 7192

Answers (2)

Mike Perham
Mike Perham

Reputation: 22208

Your assumption/example is incorrect. Do the normal Ruby thing: rescue the error and ignore it.

def perform(id)
  UpdateMailchimpService.new.(id)
rescue NormalError
  # job will succeed normally and Sidekiq won't retry it.
end

Upvotes: 9

Aleksei Matiushkin
Aleksei Matiushkin

Reputation: 121000

Use retry: false advanced option:

class UpdateMailchimpWorker
  include Sidekiq::Worker
  sidekiq_options retry: false # ⇐ HERE

  def perform(id)
    UpdateMailchimpService.new.(id)
  end
end

Upvotes: 2

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