What is the right way to stop the worker?

[5amfung]

For a simple example like the following, what is the right way to exit the program? I tried stop() at the end and it didn't seem to do anything.

worker.on("ready", function() {
    var i, len, msg, ref;
    ref = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.split('');
    for (i = 0, len = ref.length; i < len; i++) {
        msg = ref[i];
        console.log('SEND', msg);
        worker.send(msg);
    }
});

[mpneuried]

just call .stop().
https://github.com/mpneuried/rsmq-worker#stop

[5amfung]

That's what I thought too. Here's what I tried, but the script didn't stop. Am I missing something?

worker.start();
console.log('stop?');
worker.stop();

[mpneuried]

OK, now i can understand your need.
You want your script to end after the .stop(), right?
That was not the intension of .stop().
So i added a .quit() method with version 0.4.2.

Here's an extract of the changed docs:

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.stop()

Just stop the receive interval.
This will not cut the connection to rsmq/redis.
If you want you script to end call .quit()

Return

( Self ): The instance itself for chaining.

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.quit()

Stop the worker and close the connection.
After this it's no longer possible to reuse the worker-instance.
It's just intended to kill all timers and connections so your script will end.