Failed event listener not failing

[victor-david]

Hi. According to the docs:

Sometimes your queued event listeners may fail. If the queued listener exceeds the maximum number of attempts as defined by your queue worker, the failed method will be called on your listener. The failed method receives the event instance and the Throwable that caused the failure:

Yet, my failed method doesn't get called:

class SendSubscribeNotice implements ShouldQueue
{
    // use InteractsWithQueue; // have tried with and without this

    public $delay = 15;
    public $tries = 3;
    public $backoff = 15;

    public function handle(Subscribe $event): void
    {
        throw new \Exception('Throw for test');
        Log::info("Subscriber signed up. Name: {$event->subscriber->name} Email: {$event->subscriber->email}");
    }

    public function failed(Subscribe $event, Throwable $exception): void
    {
        Log::error('Failed ' . $exception->getMessage());
    }
}

Despite that I throw an exception in the handle method, the log receives the "Subscriber signed up..." message, and never receives the "Failed..." message.

Would like to be able to know if the listener fails. but not sure what I need to do differently. Any guidance appreciated.

[victor-david]

Figured it out. I needed to restart supervisor, which was running the worker. Now it fails as expected.