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The Hung Job
The Scenario
A job has been "processing" for 2 hours. The external fraud detection API
is unresponsive, and the job is stuck waiting for a response that may never come.
The worker thread is blocked and can't process other jobs.
The Challenge
How do we prevent jobs from running forever when external dependencies hang?
The Solution
Use
Job Timeouts to automatically fail jobs that take too long:
@Job(processTimeOut = "PT5M") // Fail after 5 minutes
public void callExternalAPI() {
externalService.callSlowAPI();
}
If the job exceeds the timeout, JobRunr marks it as
FAILED and frees the worker.
The job can then retry with exponential backoff (when the API might be responsive again).
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Try It Yourself
The export job has a timeout configured. If the government API is slow,
watch the job fail after the timeout and retry automatically.
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