Laravel 5.2 Queue Using Database

Question

From a controller, I dispatched a job to send a welcome email using

$this->dispatch(new SendWelcomeEmail($user));

In SendWelcomeEmail Job I'm doing

public function handle(Mailer $mailer)
{
    $mailer->send('emails.welcome', ['data' => 'data'], function ($m) {
        $m->from('noreply@gmail.com', 'Noreply');
        $m->to('xyz@live.com', 'xyz')->subject('Welcome');
    });
}

My .env file is configured to be

QUEUE_DRIVER=database
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=*access*
MAIL_PASSWORD=*key*
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Checked:

• Database migrations - 'Jobs' tables
• Ran the queue listener before job dispatch trigger using php artisan queue:listen

Problem: The jobs are loaded on to the 'jobs' table in the database but are not processed. But this works completely fine when I update the queue drive.

QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

What am i missing here?

Answer 1

Does your job have the following traits on the class?

use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;

And implement:

ShouldQueue