Safe fetching a deleted job removes the deleted job from queue.

rq/queue.py

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class Queue(object):
             try:
                 job = Job.safe_fetch(job_id, connection=self.connection)
             except NoSuchJobError:
+                self.remove(job_id)
                 return None
             except UnpickleError:
                 return None
@@ -88,6 +89,11 @@ class Queue(object):
         """Returns a count of all messages in the queue."""
         return self.connection.llen(self.key)
 
+    def remove(self, job_or_id):
+        """Removes Job from queue, accepts either a Job instance or ID."""
+        job_id = job_or_id.id if isinstance(job_or_id, Job) else job_or_id
+        return self.connection._lrem(self.key, 0, job_id)
+
     def compact(self):
         """Removes all "dead" jobs from the queue by cycling through it, while
         guarantueeing FIFO semantics.
@@ -316,11 +322,11 @@ class FailedQueue(Queue):
             job = Job.fetch(job_id, connection=self.connection)
         except NoSuchJobError:
             # Silently ignore/remove this job and return (i.e. do nothing)
-            self.connection._lrem(self.key, 0, job_id)
+            self.remove(job_id)
             return
 
         # Delete it from the failed queue (raise an error if that failed)
-        if self.connection._lrem(self.key, 0, job.id) == 0:
+        if self.remove(job) == 0:
             raise InvalidJobOperationError('Cannot requeue non-failed jobs.')
 
         job.status = Status.QUEUED

tests/test_queue.py

@@ -50,6 +50,32 @@ class TestQueue(RQTestCase):
         self.testconn.rpush('rq:queue:example', 'sentinel message')
         self.assertEquals(q.is_empty(), False)
 
+    def test_remove(self):
+        """Ensure queue.remove properly removes Job from queue."""
+        q = Queue('example')
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
+        self.assertIn(job.id, q.job_ids)
+        q.remove(job)
+        self.assertNotIn(job.id, q.job_ids)
+
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
+        self.assertIn(job.id, q.job_ids)
+        q.remove(job.id)
+        self.assertNotIn(job.id, q.job_ids)
+
+    def test_jobs(self):
+        """Getting jobs out of a queue."""
+        q = Queue('example')
+        self.assertEqual(q.jobs, [])
+        job = q.enqueue(say_hello)
+        self.assertEqual(q.jobs, [job])
+
+        # Fetching a deleted removes it from queue
+        job.delete()
+        self.assertEqual(q.job_ids, [job.id])
+        q.jobs
+        self.assertEqual(q.job_ids, [])
+
     def test_compact(self):
         """Compacting queueus."""
         q = Queue()