Week 2 built the queueing layer on top of the Week 1 email_jobs foundation, on the email-queue-service branch, tracked in MR !1238. No existing email flow was changed yet — this was still infrastructure work, one layer closer to something a controller could actually call.
The centerpiece is EmailQueueService, with a single entry point: enqueueMailerAction(). Controllers will eventually call this instead of sending mail directly. It does two things: first, it creates and persists an email_jobs row with the given mailer, action, and payload. Then it hands the job off to Redis through a separate dispatchToRedis() step, which registers the queue name and pushes the job ID onto it.
For the Redis side, I reused the queue-key formatting already established in TaskComponent — its constants and queueKey() helper — rather than inventing a new convention. That way the existing task queue and the new email queue stay consistent about how a Redis key gets built. The Redis connection itself is lazy-loaded on first use rather than opened eagerly. And if the Redis push fails, that failure is caught and logged without rolling back the database write — the job stays safely pending in email_jobs either way, since the database write is the source of truth here and Redis is just a dispatch signal on top of it. I closed the week out with tests covering the three paths that actually matter: the job getting written to the database correctly, the Redis push happening with the right queue name and job ID, and the failure path where Redis is unavailable but the database write still succeeds.
| # | Day | Date | A short description of the work done |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | 2026/06/01 | Reviewed Week 2 scope and studied existing TaskComponent Redis queue conventions. |
| 2 | Tuesday | 2026/06/02 | Designed the EmailQueueService interface and enqueueMailerAction() method. |
| 3 | Wednesday | 2026/06/03 | Implemented EmailQueueService to save pending jobs in email_jobs. |
| 4 | Thursday | 2026/06/04 | Added Redis dispatch to cdli:queue:email and shared queue key constants in TaskComponent. |
| 5 | Friday | 2026/06/05 | Added service tests for DB write, Redis push, and Redis failure handling. |
| 6 | Saturday | 2026/06/06 | Verified queue service behavior and checked syntax/lint on Week 2 files. |
| 7 | Sunday | 2026/06/07 |