php-resque/lib/Resque/Failure.php

<?php

/**
 * Failed Resque job.
 *
 * @package        Resque/Failure
 * @author        Chris Boulton <chris@bigcommerce.com>
 * @license        http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */

class Resque_Failure
{
    /**
     * @var string Class name representing the backend to pass failed jobs off to.
     */
    private static $backend;

    /**
     * Create a new failed job on the backend.
     *
     * @param array $payload The contents of the job that has just failed.
     * @param Exception $exception The exception generated when the job failed to run.
     * @param Resque_Worker $worker Instance of Resque_Worker that was running this job when it failed.
     * @param string $queue The name of the queue that this job was fetched from.
     */
    public static function create($payload, Exception $exception, Resque_Worker $worker, $queue)
    {
        $backend = self::getBackend();
        new $backend($payload, $exception, $worker, $queue);
    }

    /**
     * Return an instance of the backend for saving job failures.
     *
     * @return object|string
     */
    public static function getBackend()
    {
        if (self::$backend === null) {
            self::$backend = 'Resque_Failure_Redis';
        }

        return self::$backend;
    }

    /**
     * Set the backend to use for raised job failures. The supplied backend
     * should be the name of a class to be instantiated when a job fails.
     * It is your responsibility to have the backend class loaded (or autoloaded)
     *
     * @param string $backend The class name of the backend to pipe failures to.
     */
    public static function setBackend($backend)
    {
        self::$backend = $backend;
    }
}