How push a task with SpecId in firebase-queue with nodejs?

Question

In the document example we can see :

var Queue = require('firebase-queue'),
    Firebase = require('firebase');

var ref = new Firebase('https://<your-firebase>.firebaseio.com');
var queueRef = ref.child('queue');
var messagesRef = ref.child('messages');

var options = {
  'specId': 'new_user'
};

new Queue(queueRef, options, function(data, progress, resolve, reject) {
  // sanitize input message
  console.log(data.message);

  // pass sanitized message and username along to be fanned out
  resolve(data);
});

How save a new task with the specId new_useror other custom specId

var task = {'userId': "0338ba4d-191f-4044-9af0-4c76f47aeef9"};

ref.child("queue").child("tasks").push(task);

This push does not trigger the queue. If I remove the options from the Queue, it does work (of course)

Answer 1

tl;dr the start_statefor the spec should match the _state of the task.

You need push the definition of each spec to the Firebase queue. For e.g.

  ref.child('queue/specs').set({
    new_user: {
     start_state: 'add_new_user',
     in_progress_state: 'add_new_user_in_progress'
    }
  });

Here new_user is the specId that you have specified for the queue. Now when you push a task, you need to set the _state to the start_state for the spec. For e.g.

var task = {'userId': "0338ba4d-191f-4044-9af0-4c76f47aeef9", '_state': 'add_new_user'};
ref.child("queue").child("tasks").push(task);

Now this task should be picked up the queue that is created to handled tasks with specId new_user

Read this and this in the official firebase queue documentation.