agenda/lib/agenda/now.ts

Light weight job scheduler for Node.js

import createDebugger from "debug";
import { Agenda } from ".";
import { Job, JobAttributesData } from "../job";

const debug = createDebugger("agenda:now");

/**
 * Create a job for this exact moment
 * @name Agenda#now
 * @function
 * @param name name of job to schedule
 * @param data data to pass to job
 */
export const now = async function<T extends JobAttributesData> (
  this: Agenda,
  name: string,
  data: T
): Promise<Job> {
  debug("Agenda.now(%s, [Object])", name);
  try {
    const job = this.create(name, data);

    job.schedule(new Date());
    await job.save();

    return job;
  } catch (error) {
    debug("error trying to create a job for this exact moment");
    throw error;
  }
};