Laravel dispatching Queues at set time

Question

I am currently dispatching queued jobs to send API Events instantly, in busy times these queued jobs need to be held until overnight when the API is less busy, how can I hold these queued jobs or schedule them to only run from 01:00am the following day.

the Queued Job call currently looks like:

EliQueueIdentity::dispatch($EliIdentity->id)->onQueue('eli');

there are other jobs on the same queue, all of which will need to be held in busy times

Answer 1

Use delay to run job at a certain time.

EliQueueIdentity::dispatch($EliIdentity->id)
    ->onQueue('eli')
    ->delay($this->scheduleDate());

Helper for calculating the time, handling a edge case between 00:00 to 01:00, where it would delay it a whole day. While not specified how to handle busy, made an pseudo example you can implement.

private function scheduleDate()
{
    $now = Carbon::now();

    if (! $this->busy()) {
        return $now;
    }

    // check for edge case of 00:00:00 to 01
    if ($now->hour <= 1) {
        $now->setTime(1, 0, 0);
        return $now;
    }

    return Carbon::tomorrow()->addHour();
}