How to handle a failed job laravel

Question

I am doing multiple calls to different api's on my cron job, like:

foreach ($transactions as $transaction) {
    $job = (new SendApplicationToBank($transaction));
    $this->dispatch($job);
}

One transaction has many banks so I am sending a transaction to all banks related:

Job:

public function handle(){
    try {
        $result = app($bankClass)::sendLoanApplication($this->transaction);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        //Silent fail
    }
}

The problem is that its failing on the first bank and just keeps retrying.

How should go and cofigure so If a job fails just release back to queue and continue the next one ?

Results:

php artisan queue:listen

Answer 1

You should not catch the Exception to let the job fail properly. Now you are catching it and doing nothing (//Silent fail)

You should make a table in your database to catch the failed jobs automatically with:

php artisan queue:failed-table

In the script running your queue you should add the number of tries before failing:

php artisan queue:listen --tries=3

It's also smart to add some kind of timeout:

php artisan queue:listen --tries=3 --timeout=60

And you can also call a webhook on fail by adding a failed method to you job:

public function failed()
{
    // Called when the job is failing...
}

Answer 2

Running a command with limited tries you can run the following command

php artisan queue:work --retry=3

it will try to run your job only three-time

and programmatically you can use

    public $tries = 3;

in your job class

Hope this helps