[Bug]: Repeatable jobs with 5+ colon segments in key create duplicates

[htounkara]

Version

v5.56.8

Platform

NodeJS

What happened?

Hello,

When a repeatable job's repeatJobKey contains 5 or more colon-separated segments, the worker falls into updateRepeatableJob instead of updateRepeatableJobMillis that creates ghost duplicate schedulers instead of correctly deduplicating them.

I believe it comes from worker.js (line 816), causing it to create a new scheduler entry instead of updating the existing one.

I shortened my keys to stay under 5 colon segments and manually deleted the old schedulers from my database. It seems to work as the issue has not reproduced since.

Is this behavior normal or am I missing something ?

How to reproduce.

Create a jobScheduler with more than 4 colon segments.
Let the worker pick up and process the first job.
After processing, the worker calls repeat.updateRepeatableJob() instead of jobScheduler.upsertJobScheduler()
On the next tick, there are 2 jobs.

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[roggervalf]

hi @htounkara I believe you refer to https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq/blob/master/src/classes/worker.ts#L907C38-L923 and to answer your question, we expect that repeatable jobs with old key format (5+ colon segments) to be treated as old repeatable jobs, not new job schedulers