Added "result_ttl" property on jobs that determines how long job results are persisted in Redis.

rq/job.py

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ from .exceptions import UnpickleError, NoSuchJobError
 
 JOB_ATTRS = set(['origin', '_func_name', 'ended_at', 'description', '_args',
                  'created_at', 'enqueued_at', 'connection', '_result',
-                 'timeout', '_kwargs', 'exc_info', '_id', 'data', '_instance'])
+                 'timeout', '_kwargs', 'exc_info', '_id', 'data', '_instance',
+                 'result_ttl'])
 
 
 def unpickle(pickled_string):
@@ -50,7 +51,8 @@ class Job(object):
 
     # Job construction
     @classmethod
-    def create(cls, func, args=None, kwargs=None, connection=None):
+    def create(cls, func, args=None, kwargs=None, connection=None,
+               result_ttl=None):
         """Creates a new Job instance for the given function, arguments, and
         keyword arguments.
         """
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ class Job(object):
         job._args = args
         job._kwargs = kwargs
         job.description = job.get_call_string()
+        job.result_ttl = result_ttl
         return job
 
     @property
@@ -134,6 +137,7 @@ class Job(object):
         self._result = None
         self.exc_info = None
         self.timeout = None
+        self.result_ttl = None
 
 
     # Data access
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@ class Job(object):
         self._result = unpickle(obj.get('result')) if obj.get('result') else None  # noqa
         self.exc_info = obj.get('exc_info')
         self.timeout = int(obj.get('timeout')) if obj.get('timeout') else None
+        self.result_ttl = int(obj.get('result_ttl')) if obj.get('result_ttl') else None # noqa
 
         # Overwrite job's additional attrs (those not in JOB_ATTRS), if any
         additional_attrs = set(obj.keys()).difference(JOB_ATTRS)
@@ -248,6 +253,8 @@ class Job(object):
             obj['exc_info'] = self.exc_info
         if self.timeout is not None:
             obj['timeout'] = self.timeout
+        if self.result_ttl is not None:
+            obj['result_ttl'] = self.result_ttl
         """
         Store additional attributes from job instance into Redis. This is done
         so that third party libraries using RQ can store additional data

rq/queue.py

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         """Pushes a job ID on the corresponding Redis queue."""
         self.connection.rpush(self.key, job_id)
 
-    def enqueue_call(self, func, args=None, kwargs=None, timeout=None):
+    def enqueue_call(self, func, args=None, kwargs=None, timeout=None, result_ttl=None): #noqa
         """Creates a job to represent the delayed function call and enqueues
         it.
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class Queue(object):
         contain options for RQ itself.
         """
         timeout = timeout or self._default_timeout
-        job = Job.create(func, args, kwargs, connection=self.connection)
+        job = Job.create(func, args, kwargs, connection=self.connection, result_ttl=result_ttl)
         return self.enqueue_job(job, timeout=timeout)
 
     def enqueue(self, f, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -138,14 +138,16 @@ class Queue(object):
         # Detect explicit invocations, i.e. of the form:
         #     q.enqueue(foo, args=(1, 2), kwargs={'a': 1}, timeout=30)
         timeout = None
+        result_ttl = None
         if 'args' in kwargs or 'kwargs' in kwargs:
             assert args == (), 'Extra positional arguments cannot be used when using explicit args and kwargs.'  # noqa
             timeout = kwargs.pop('timeout', None)
             args = kwargs.pop('args', None)
+            result_ttl = kwargs.pop('result_ttl', None)
             kwargs = kwargs.pop('kwargs', None)
 
         return self.enqueue_call(func=f, args=args, kwargs=kwargs,
-                timeout=timeout)
+                                 timeout=timeout, result_ttl=result_ttl)
 
     def enqueue_job(self, job, timeout=None, set_meta_data=True):
         """Enqueues a job for delayed execution.

rq/worker.py

@@ -400,7 +400,10 @@ class Worker(object):
         if rv is not None:
             p = self.connection.pipeline()
             p.hset(job.key, 'result', pickled_rv)
-            p.expire(job.key, self.rv_ttl)
+            if job.result_ttl is None:
+                p.expire(job.key, self.rv_ttl)
+            elif job.result_ttl >= 0:
+                p.expire(job.key, job.result_ttl)
             p.execute()
         else:
             # Cleanup immediately

tests/test_job.py

@@ -189,3 +189,15 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         job2 = Job.fetch(job.id)
         job2.refresh()
         self.assertEqual(job2.foo, 'bar')
+
+    def test_result_ttl_is_persisted(self):
+        """Ensure that job's result_ttl is set properly"""
+        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',), result_ttl=10)
+        job.save()
+        job_from_queue = Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
+        self.assertEqual(job.result_ttl, 10)
+
+        job = Job.create(func=say_hello, args=('Lionel',))
+        job.save()
+        job_from_queue = Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
+        self.assertEqual(job.result_ttl, None)

tests/test_queue.py

@@ -252,3 +252,11 @@ class TestFailedQueue(RQTestCase):
 
         job = Job.fetch(job.id)
         self.assertEquals(job.timeout, 200)
+
+    def test_enqueue_preserves_result_ttl(self):
+        """Ensure that result_ttl argument are properly persisted to Redis."""
+        q = Queue()
+        job = q.enqueue(div_by_zero, args=(1, 2, 3), result_ttl=10)
+        self.assertEqual(job.result_ttl, 10)
+        job_from_queue = Job.fetch(job.id, connection=self.testconn)
+        self.assertEqual(int(job_from_queue.result_ttl), 10)

tests/test_worker.py

@@ -175,3 +175,19 @@ class TestWorker(RQTestCase):
         # TODO: Having to do the manual refresh() here is really ugly!
         res.refresh()
         self.assertIn('JobTimeoutException', res.exc_info)
+
+    def test_worker_sets_result_ttl(self):
+        """Ensure that Worker properly sets result_ttl for individual jobs."""
+        q = Queue()
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello, args=('Frank',), result_ttl=10)
+        w = Worker([q])
+        w.work(burst=True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.ttl(job.key), 10)
+
+        # Job with -1 result_ttl don't expire
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello, args=('Frank',), result_ttl=-1)
+        w = Worker([q])
+        w.work(burst=True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.testconn.ttl(job.key), None)
+
+