[FEATURE REQUEST] Create tasks without timestamp

[hibiken]

[FEATURE REQUEST] Create tasks without timestamp

[gunnsth]

Yes that sounds great.

[gunnsth]

@hibiken Sure. I can take a look at it. Need to familiarize myself a bit with the internals first and best ways for debugging. Should be fun. Might take a while though as I am pretty swamped at the moment.

[hibiken]

Thanks for this feedback!

As described in Life of a Task, when you call

client.Schedule(task, time.Now())

Task will be enqueued immediately to a queue (FIFO queue) and will be dequeued by a worker as soon as it gets to the front of the queue.

My initial thought behind exporting just one method from the Client type was to keep the API surface area as small as possible.

But, I completely agree that we can provide better API to do what's effectively done with

client.Schedule(task, timestamp)

In fact, I've been thinking about changing this Client API for the last few weeks myself.
Here's my proposal for the Client API

// Process task immediately 
client.Enqueue(task)

// Process at the specified time
client.EnqueueAt(task, timestamp)

// Process after specified duration
client.EnqueueIn(task, duration)

This is similar to python's RQ library's API.

Let me know your thoughts.

[hibiken]

@gunnsth Would you like to work on this?

[hibiken]

No pressure! Feel free to ping me on gitter channel if you have questions 😄