FailedJobRegistry.requeue() resets job.started_at and job.ended_at (#1227)

rq/job.py

@@ -531,10 +531,9 @@ class Job(object):
             obj['description'] = self.description
         if self.enqueued_at is not None:
             obj['enqueued_at'] = utcformat(self.enqueued_at)
-        if self.started_at is not None:
+
-            obj['started_at'] = utcformat(self.started_at)
+        obj['started_at'] = utcformat(self.started_at) if self.started_at else ''
-        if self.ended_at is not None:
+        obj['ended_at'] = utcformat(self.ended_at) if self.ended_at else ''
-            obj['ended_at'] = utcformat(self.ended_at)
         if self._result is not None:
             try:
                 obj['result'] = dumps(self._result)

rq/registry.py

@@ -215,10 +215,15 @@ class FailedJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):
         if not result:
             raise InvalidJobOperation
         
+        with self.connection.pipeline() as pipeline:
             queue = Queue(job.origin, connection=self.connection,
                           job_class=self.job_class)
-
+            job.started_at = None
-        return queue.enqueue_job(job)
+            job.ended_at = None
+            job.save()
+            job = queue.enqueue_job(job, pipeline=pipeline)
+            pipeline.execute()
+        return job
 
 
 class DeferredJobRegistry(BaseRegistry):

rq/utils.py

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def backend_class(holder, default_name, override=None):
 
 
 def str_to_date(date_str):
-    if date_str is None:
+    if not date_str:
         return
     else:
         return utcparse(as_text(date_str))

tests/test_job.py

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ class TestJob(RQTestCase):
         # ... and no other keys are stored
         self.assertEqual(
             sorted(self.testconn.hkeys(job.key)),
-            [b'created_at', b'data', b'description'])
+            [b'created_at', b'data', b'description', b'ended_at', b'started_at'])
 
     def test_persistence_of_parent_job(self):
         """Storing jobs with parent job, either instance or key."""

tests/test_registry.py

@@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ class TestFailedJobRegistry(RQTestCase):
 
         job.refresh()
         self.assertEqual(job.get_status(), JobStatus.QUEUED)
+        self.assertEqual(job.started_at, None)
+        self.assertEqual(job.ended_at, None)
 
         worker.work(burst=True)
         self.assertTrue(job in registry)