qjobs


qjobs
==================
Efficient queue job manager module for nodejs.

Features
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* Concurrency limiter
* Dynamic queue, a job can be added while the queue is running
* Optional delay before continuing after max concurrency has been reached
* Support of pause/unpause
* Events emitter based: start, end, sleep, continu, jobStart, jobEnd
* Quick statistic function, so you can know where the queue is, at regular interval

For what it can be usefull ?
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Jobs which needs to run in parallels, but in a controled maner, example:
* Network scanners
* Parallels monitoring jobs
* Images/Videos related jobs

Compatibility :
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* not tested with nodejs < 0.10

Examples
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(take a look at tests directory if you are looking for running samples)

``
var qjobs = new require('./qjobs');

// My non blocking main job
var myjob = function(args,next) {
setTimeout(function() {
console.log('Do something interesting here',args);
next();
},1000);
}

var q = new qjobs({maxConcurrency:10});

// Let's add 30 job to the queue
for (var i = 0; i<30; i++) {
q.add(myjob,[i,'test '+i]);
}

q.on('start',function() {
console.log('Starting ...');
});

q.on('end',function() {
console.log('... All jobs done');
});

q.on('jobStart',function(args) {
console.log('jobStart',args);
});

q.on('jobEnd',function(args) {

console.log('jobend',args);

// If i'm jobId 10, then make a pause of 5 sec

if (args._jobId == 10) {
q.pause(true);
setTimeout(function() {
q.pause(false);
},5000);
}
});

q.on('pause',function(since) {
console.log('in pause since '+since+' milliseconds');
});

q.on('unpause',function() {
console.log('pause end, continu ..');
});

q.run();

//q.abort() will empty jobs list

``