Question: Is there a way to get the jobs position in the queue?

[ryankauk]

Hey there, just started using your package, everything seems perfect so far, except I'm looking for a way to get the position in the queue by job id. Is there a functionality for it or maybe some direction how to do this?

[stansv]

I don't think the optimal solution exists, anyway linear search is required. With Bull you can simply do:

    const waiting = await queue.getWaiting();

    for (let i = 0; i < waiting.length; i++) {
        const job = waiting[i];
        if(job.id === someId) return i; // 0 means job is 1st in queue
    }

Job priorities are also taken into account.

Faster solution will include lua scripting as described here https://stackoverflow.com/a/8925470. There is bull:queueName:wait key holding all queued jobs in value of type LIST, you can adapt script for this case and use ioredis to execute it.

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