calling done with error doesnt fail the job on Arena

[sharonass]

I've setup a bee-queue with arena and In my local machine when I call

queue.process(async function (job, done) {

    console.log(`Processing job ${job.id}`);
    job.reportProgress(5);
    let res = await my_service.execute(job);
    if(res.status) {
      //report job progress
      job.reportProgress(100);
      return done(null, res.msg);
    } else {
      done(new Error(res.msg));
      
    }
  });    

I see on my flow that the done(new Error(res.msg)); is being called and I also debugged the done function and I see it rejects the promise. however when I look at the job on Arena I see it in success section

[sharonass]

I also dont get fail event

queue.on('failed', (job, err) => {
console.log(Job ${job.id} failed with error ${err.message});
});

[Dylan Jhaveri]

@sharonass I think the problem is that if you pass an async function (or a promise) the done callback will be useless

See docs:

N.B. If the handler returns a Promise, calls to the done callback will be ignored.

https://github.com/bee-queue/bee-queue#queueprocessconcurrency-handlerjob-done

[Lewis J Ellis]

Aha, I was a bit puzzled here but @dylanjha I think you hit the nail on the head.

I would replace:

return done(null, res.msg);
...
done(new Error(res.msg));

with:

return res.msg;
...
throw new Error(res.msg);