[Bug]: RangeError when adding child job

[jonknyc]

Version

^5.18.0

Platform

NodeJS

What happened?

When adding a child job (following the steps documented here: https://docs.bullmq.io/patterns/process-step-jobs#waiting-children), I get an error:

RangeError [ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS]: "length" is outside of buffer bounds
    at proto.utf8Write (node:internal/buffer:1066:13)
    at Packr.encodeUtf8 (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/msgpackr/pack.js:31:18)
    at pack (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/msgpackr/pack.js:324:15)
    at packArray (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/msgpackr/pack.js:238:5)
    at pack (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/msgpackr/pack.js:424:7)
    at Packr.pack.encode (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/msgpackr/pack.js:129:6)
    at Scripts.addStandardJob (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/bullmq/src/classes/scripts.ts:158:15)
    at Scripts.addJob (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/bullmq/src/classes/scripts.ts:219:27)
    at Job.addJob (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/bullmq/src/classes/job.ts:1212:25)
    at Function.create (/Users/jonk/celebrate2/node_modules/bullmq/src/classes/job.ts:254:24) {
  code: 'ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS'
}

If I add the job without specifying the parent details, it works. But when I specify the parent, it fails:

            // create child job
            await queue.add(JobType.FOO, data, {
              parent: {
                id: job.id!,
                queue: job.queueQualifiedName,
              },
            })

I have confirmed that the job ID exists and everything looks correct. As I said, I am basically copying the documentation.

How to reproduce.

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[Botelho31]

I believe this is a node version error, it should only be ocurring in version 22.7, if you could upgrade it to 22.8 or downgrade to 22.5 it should be fixed.

[xtrinch]

@Botelho31 Are we sure about that? I'm getting this same error in node 20.18.0

[duckboy81]

Same issue with node v23.0.0

EDIT: Just rolled node back to v20.13.1 and it worked just fine. Probably can close this issue.

[manast]

v23 is definitely broken, dozens of tests are just failing miserably with many obscure errors.

[manast]

Fixed here: #2882

[james-william-r]

Just a heads up, similar issue: Had the same error but when using addBulk, was on Node 23.7, downgraded to 20 and it's working fine.

[manast]

We only support NodeJS LTS versions. 23 is not supposed to be used in production, nor do we run tests on it. when v24 is out we will support it.