From:	(Justin Mason)	Date:	Wed May 10 15:45:40 2006
Subject:	Re: Changing metadata inside of a job runner

Duncan Hill writes:
> I'm looking at your IPC::DirQueue module as a solution to my current 
> home-grown queue runner, and have a few questions that a brief check of the 
> module doesn't answer.
> 
> 1) Can the metadata be written to from a job runner?  There's no function for 
> this, but there's nothing obvious saying 'don't do that'.
> 2) If not, would you consider this feature?
> 
> Essentially, the code I'm fitting dq into talks to an SQL database a lot.  If 
> a log file encounters a failure being parsed, I'd like to be able to tag the 
> metadata with a 'don't touch, leper' flag so that other queue runners don't 
> try to handle it when it gets returned to the queue.  Without the ability to 
> change the metadata, all I can do is crank the priority down, and have a 
> specialised runner that only picks up low priority items and moves them out 
> of the main queue (which would work I suppose).

hi --

Unfortunately not :(   Right now, the metadata is written to only
once, at enqueue time, and only read thereafter.

It'd make a good patch, though ;)

--j.