Hello, all!
I’m new to Elixir and recently I’ve just came across with an issue that didn’t look so trivial at first, but solution was indeed (Function overriding causes warning).
The issue is related to Oban and there was a module like:
defmodule OurWorker do
require Logger
use OpenTelemetryDecorator
@decorate_all simple_trace()
use Oban.Worker,
queue: :some_queue,
max_attempts: 120,
unique: [period: 30, states: [:available, :scheduled, :executing]]
def backoff(%Job{attempt: attempt}), do: 10
end
Where backoff() function was set to a fixed 10s interval.
It was able to note that this interval wasn’t being taken into account, being considered the default Worker.backoff() (exponential 15s).
It took a long time to figure out this, and it was only possible by decompiling this code (Unveil Erlang Code of Your Elixir Project) and realising that Worker.backoff() wasn’t being overridden:
backoff(#{'__struct__' := 'Elixir.Oban.Job'} = _@1) ->
'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Span',
'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Tracer',
_@2 = 'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Tracer':current_span_ctx(),
_@4 = case 'Elixir.Logger':metadata() of
[{request_id, _@3}] -> [{request_id, _@3}];
_ -> []
end,
otel_tracer:with_span(opentelemetry:get_tracer('OurWorker'),
<<"OurWorker.backoff/1">>,
#{parent => _@2, attributes => _@4},
fun (_) -> 'Elixir.Oban.Worker':backoff(_@1) end);
backoff(#{attempt := _attempt@1,
'__struct__' := 'Elixir.Oban.Job'}) ->
'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Span',
'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Tracer',
_@1 = 'Elixir.OpenTelemetry.Tracer':current_span_ctx(),
_@3 = case 'Elixir.Logger':metadata() of
[{request_id, _@2}] -> [{request_id, _@2}];
_ -> []
end,
otel_tracer:with_span(opentelemetry:get_tracer('OurWorker'),
<<"OurWorker.backoff/1">>,
#{parent => _@1, attributes => _@3},
fun (_) -> 10 end).
Moving up use Oban.Worker to the top of the module happily solved the issue.
I kind of understand that this has to do with macro issues, so placement is kind of important, but not so obvious…
So, the question is: would it make sense to detect this kind of “misplacement” of a use? Maybe on credo?
Sorry if the question doesn’t makes any sense, I’m still on my first learning steps.
