Laravel - Redis error when dispatching a job - laravel

Question

On one of the systems that I take care of, some times some jobs don't get dispatched due to a connection problem with Redis and this ends up returning an error to the user, on our side we can ignore this error and just miss this job, I looked for how to deal with it on Google and I didn't find anything about it.
public function sendMessage(Request $request, Model $model)
{
// Do the necessary stuff
ResolveMessageBilling::dispatch($model, $request->all());
return response()->json([
'message' => 'The message was succesfully sent'
], 200);
}
This is the error we are getting: RedisException - socket error on read socket
How to ignore the error if it occurs? A simple try/catch can resolve the issue?
public function sendMessage(Request $request, Model $model)
{
// Do the necessary stuff
try {
ResolveMessageBilling::dispatch($model, $request->all());
} catch(\Exception $e) {}
return response()->json([
'message' => 'The message was succesfully sent'
], 200);
}

Answer 1

If you want to bypass ANY error, you should use \Throwable instead of \Exception
public function sendMessage(Request $request, Model $model)
{
// Do the necessary stuff
try {
ResolveMessageBilling::dispatch($model, $request->all());
} catch(\Throwable $e) {}
return response()->json([
'message' => 'The message was succesfully sent'
], 200);
}
see Error Hierarchy: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.errors.php7.php
If you want to bypass only the \RedisException, you should be able to use:
public function sendMessage(Request $request, Model $model)
{
// Do the necessary stuff
try {
ResolveMessageBilling::dispatch($model, $request->all());
} catch(\RedisException $e) {}
return response()->json([
'message' => 'The message was succesfully sent'
], 200);
}

Answer 2

If you don't want to setup Redis just want to fixed/remove errors only, follow this article: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/errors
IF you want to Setup Redis(config -> detabase.php) properly, follow few step like this:
'redis' => [
'client' => 'predis',
// Keep Default as is you want to use both redis and sentinel for different service(cache, queue)'
'default' => [
'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
'database' => 0,
],
// Create a custom connection to use redis sentinel
'cache_sentinel' => [
// Set the Sentinel Host from Environment (optinal you can hardcode if want to use in prod only)
env('CACHE_REDIS_SENTINEL_1'),
env('CACHE_REDIS_SENTINEL_2'),
env('CACHE_REDIS_SENTINEL_3'),
'options' => [
'replication' => 'sentinel',
'service' => 'cachemaster'),
'parameters' => [
'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
'database' => 0,
],
],
],
],
if you needs to Redis sentinal cache, can create new cache connection to use the above sentinal connection like this:
'stores' = [
//Default config
'redis' => [
'driver' => 'redis',
'connection' => 'default',
],
// Custom cache connection(according to you)
'sentinel_redis' => [
'driver' => 'redis',
'connection' => 'cache_sentinel',
],
In laravel app, you can easily use via cache facade:
Cache::store('sentinel_redis')->get('key');
After config Redis properly test again with the clear server cache