Handle Method not being called in Laravel Redis Queue - php

Question

When adding an item to the queue, for some reason the handle method is not being called.
The Log entry in __construct is appearing but when attempting to log in handle(), nothing appears.
The method i'm using to dispatch is ProcessImport::dispatch($path, $task->task_id);
My queue service is configured to use Redis, and redis is storing all the data accordingly.
I am using Laravel 8. What could be wrong?
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use App\Models\Tasks;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldBeUnique;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use App\Http\Controllers\Products\Products;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue;
use Illuminate\Queue\Events\JobProcessing;
use Illuminate\Queue\Events\JobProcessed;
use Throwable;
class ProcessImport implements ShouldQueue, ShouldBeUnique
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
protected $file_path;
protected $response;
protected $task;
/**
* Create a new job instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($path, $task_id)
{
Log::info("Importing products (construct)");
$this->task = Tasks::where('task_id', $task_id)->first();
$this->file_path = $path;
Log::info('Importing ' . $path);
}
private function getFilePath() {
return $this->file_path;
}
/**
* Handle a job failure.
*
* #param \Throwable $exception
* #return void
*/
public function failed(Throwable $exception)
{
$this->task->failed($exception->getMessage());
}
/**
* Get the cache driver for the unique job lock.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Repository
*/
public function uniqueVia()
{
return Cache::driver('redis');
}
/**
* Execute the job.
*
* #return void
*/
public function handle()
{
Log::info("Importing products (handle)");
$this->task->start();
$products = new Products();
$products->importProductsFromCSV($this->getFilePath());
$this->task->success();
Log::info("End of importing products..");
}
}

Answer 1

You've just pushed the jobs onto the queue but haven't started a worker to process them. You can run the worker with:
php artisan queue:work