Laravel Pausable Batch

Pause and resume Laravel job batches running on Redis queues.

Warning

This package is currently under active development and is not yet considered production-stable.

When a batch is paused, workers using the redis queue driver will not execute jobs that belong to that batch. Paused jobs are parked in Redis and restored when the batch resumes.

Installation

composer require digiloopinc/laravel-pausable-batch

Queue Connection Setup

Use your standard redis queue connection:

// config/queue.php
'connections' => [
    'redis' => [
        'driver' => 'redis',
        'connection' => 'default',
        'queue' => env('REDIS_QUEUE', 'default'),
        'retry_after' => 90,
        'block_for' => null,
        'after_commit' => false,
        'options' => [
            'pausable' => [
                'redis_prefix' => env('PAUSABLE_BATCH_REDIS_PREFIX', 'laravel-pausable-batch'),
                'restore_chunk_size' => (int) env('PAUSABLE_BATCH_RESTORE_CHUNK_SIZE', 1000),
            ],
        ],
    ],
],

Then run workers against that connection:

php artisan queue:work redis

Horizon uses the same redis connection and is automatically supported.

Batch API

Batches returned from the repository are wrapped as PausableBatch and expose:

• pause(): void
• paused(): bool
• resume(): void

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;

$batch = Bus::batch([
    new \App\Jobs\FirstJob(),
    new \App\Jobs\SecondJob(),
])->dispatch();

$batch->pause();

if ($batch->paused()) {
    $batch->resume();
}

Configuration

Configure pausable behavior directly on each queue connection under options.pausable:

• redis_prefix: Redis key prefix for pause metadata.
• restore_chunk_size: Number of paused jobs restored per chunk on resume.

Pause metadata uses the same Redis connection as the queue connection's connection setting.

Behavior Notes

• Only Batchable jobs are considered pausable.
• Pause is enforced at worker pop time.
• Paused jobs are moved off the active queue into per-batch paused lists.
• Resume restores paused jobs to the tail of their original queue.
• Pause metadata and parked jobs are cleaned on resume, cancellation, and finish.

Testing

composer test