Laravel 5.1 : Queue event in background not working - laravel

Question

I have created a test event under \app\Events\TestEventTriggered.php :
<?php
namespace App\Events;
use App\Events\Event;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcast;
class TestEventTriggered extends Event
{
use SerializesModels;
/**
* Create a new event instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{ }
/**
* Get the channels the event should be broadcast on.
*
* #return array
*/
public function broadcastOn()
{
return [];
}
}
And an event listener under app\Listeners\ListenToMyEvent.php :
<?php
namespace App\Listeners\Events;
use App\Events\TestEventTriggered;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldBeQueued;
class ListenToMyEvent implements ShouldBeQueued
{
use InteractsWithQueue;
/**
* Create the event handler.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
//
}
/**
* Handle the event.
*
* #param TestEventTriggered $event
* #return void
*/
public function handle(TestEventTriggered $event)
{
// do some stuff
}
}
In app\Providers\EventServiceProvider.php :
protected $listen = [
'App\Events\TestEventTriggered' => [
'App\Listeners\ListenToMyEvent'
]
];
I then trigger the event for example inside my model's save method :
\Event::fire(new \App\Events\TestEventTriggered);
When i save my model now the event is processed synchronously. So the event's handle method is not processed by the queue.
The docs say to implement the ShouldBeQueued contract in the listener, which is the case in my listener. However, how am i supposed to actually push the event's handle method to the queue? What steps am i missing here? Where do i declare to which queue/tube the event should be pushed?
I am using Amazon SQS to handle my queues.
The laravel docs are a bit confusing about this matter...
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

The solution is to add a queue method in which you can set the specific tube the event should be sent to :
public function queue($queue, $command)
{
$queue->pushOn('your_queue_name',$command);
}