Use Hangfire job id in the code

Question

I'm doing a Fire-and-Forget method invocation like this.

BackgroundJob.Enqueue(() => SendEmail(name));

I would like to pass the job id to the SendEmail() method and use it inside the method.

Answer 1

The easy way is to add

PerformContext

to the job method:. Hangfire Forum topic Use Hangfire job id in the code.

Answer 2

Change the SendEmail method to look like this...

public void SendEmail(string name, string jobId)
{ 
//Body of method
}

Change the Hangfire call to look like this...

BackgroundJob.Enqueue((string jobId) => SendEmail(name, jobId));

Unless, you're looking to run a job, and send an email one complete, then you might have to do the following...

  var jobId = BackgroundJob.Enqueue(() => TaskToRun);
  BackgroundJob.ContinueWith(jobId, () => SendEmail(name, jobId));