Refactored crawler to use task dispatcher

go.mod

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.7.0
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	github.com/steambap/captcha v1.3.1
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1
 	github.com/temoto/robotstxt v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/unrolled/logger v0.0.0-20201216141554-31a3694fe979
 	github.com/vcraescu/go-paginator v1.0.0

go.sum

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ github.com/cznic/strutil v0.0.0-20181122101858-275e90344537/go.mod h1:AHHPPPXTw0
 github.com/daaku/go.zipexe v1.0.0 h1:VSOgZtH418pH9L16hC/JrgSNJbbAL26pj7lmD1+CGdY=
 github.com/daaku/go.zipexe v1.0.0/go.mod h1:z8IiR6TsVLEYKwXAoE/I+8ys/sDkgTzSL0CLnGVd57E=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
 github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb v0.9.0/go.mod h1:xbL0rPBG9cCiLr28tMa8zpbdarY27NDyej4t/EjAShU=
 github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go v3.2.0+incompatible h1:7qlOGliEKZXTDg6OTjfoBKDXWrumCAMpl/TFQ4/5kLM=
@@ -349,6 +350,7 @@ github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 h1:FEBLx1zS214owpjy7qsBeixbURkuhQAwrK5UwLGTwt4=
 github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1/go.mod h1:bwawxfHBFNV+L2hUp1rHADufV3IMtnDRdf1r5NINEl0=
 github.com/plar/go-adaptive-radix-tree v1.0.4 h1:Ucd8R6RH2E7RW8ZtDKrsWyOD3paG2qqJO0I20WQ8oWQ=
 github.com/plar/go-adaptive-radix-tree v1.0.4/go.mod h1:Ot8d28EII3i7Lv4PSvBlF8ejiD/CtRYDuPsySJbSaK8=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/posener/complete v1.1.1/go.mod h1:em0nMJCgc9GFtwrmVmEMR/ZL6WyhyjMBndrE9hABlRI=
 github.com/prologic/bitcask v0.3.10 h1:HXygU8zCvW5gLpZ8aQECPk5iV/YQ3hcqdg/zVeES6s0=
@@ -432,6 +434,7 @@ github.com/stretchr/testify v1.2.2/go.mod h1:a8OnRcib4nhh0OaRAV+Yts87kKdq0PP7pXf
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M5WIy9Dh21IEIfnGCwXGc5bZfKNJtfHm1UVUgZn+9EI=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.4.0/go.mod h1:j7eGeouHqKxXV5pUuKE4zz7dFj8WfuZ+81PSLYec5m4=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.5.1/go.mod h1:5W2xD1RspED5o8YsWQXVCued0rvSQ+mT+I5cxcmMvtA=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1 h1:hDPOHmpOpP40lSULcqw7IrRb/u7w6RpDC9399XyoNd0=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1/go.mod h1:6Fq8oRcR53rry900zMqJjRRixrwX3KX962/h/Wwjteg=
 github.com/subosito/gotenv v1.2.0/go.mod h1:N0PQaV/YGNqwC0u51sEeR/aUtSLEXKX9iv69rRypqCw=
 github.com/syndtr/goleveldb v1.0.0/go.mod h1:ZVVdQEZoIme9iO1Ch2Jdy24qqXrMMOU6lpPAyBWyWuQ=
@@ -667,6 +670,7 @@ gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.4/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0 h1:clyUAQHOM3G0M3f5vQj7LuJrETvjVot3Z5el9nffUtU=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.3.0/go.mod h1:hI93XBmqTisBFMUTm0b8Fm+jr3Dg1NNxqwp+5A1VGuI=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200605160147-a5ece683394c h1:grhR+C34yXImVGp7EzNk+DTIk+323eIUWOmEevy6bDo=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200605160147-a5ece683394c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
 gorm.io/driver/sqlite v1.1.3/go.mod h1:AKDgRWk8lcSQSw+9kxCJnX/yySj8G3rdwYlU57cB45c=
 gorm.io/gorm v1.20.1/go.mod h1:0HFTzE/SqkGTzK6TlDPPQbAYCluiVvhzoA1+aVyzenw=

internal/base_task.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/renstrom/shortuuid"
+)
+
+type BaseTask struct {
+	state TaskState
+	data  TaskData
+	err   error
+	id    string
+}
+
+func NewBaseTask() *BaseTask {
+	return &BaseTask{
+		data: make(TaskData),
+		id:   shortuuid.New(),
+	}
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) SetState(state TaskState) {
+	t.state = state
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) SetData(key, val string) {
+	if t.data == nil {
+		t.data = make(TaskData)
+	}
+	t.data[key] = val
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) Done() {
+	if t.err != nil {
+		t.state = TaskStateFailed
+	} else {
+		t.state = TaskStateComplete
+	}
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) Fail(err error) error {
+	t.err = err
+	return err
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) Result() TaskResult {
+	stateStr := t.state.String()
+	errStr := ""
+	if t.err != nil {
+		errStr = t.err.Error()
+	}
+
+	return TaskResult{
+		State: stateStr,
+		Error: errStr,
+		Data:  t.data,
+	}
+}
+
+func (t *BaseTask) String() string   { return fmt.Sprintf("%T: %s", t, t.ID()) }
+func (t *BaseTask) ID() string       { return t.id }
+func (t *BaseTask) State() TaskState { return t.state }
+func (t *BaseTask) Error() error     { return t.err }

internal/crawl_task.go

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+type CrawlTask struct {
+	*BaseTask
+
+	conf    *Config
+	db      Store
+	indexer Indexer
+
+	url string
+}
+
+func NewCrawlTask(conf *Config, db Store, indexer Indexer, url string) *CrawlTask {
+	return &CrawlTask{
+		BaseTask: NewBaseTask(),
+
+		conf:    conf,
+		db:      db,
+		indexer: indexer,
+
+		url: url,
+	}
+}
+
+func (t *CrawlTask) String() string { return fmt.Sprintf("%T: %s", t, t.ID()) }
+func (t *CrawlTask) Run() error {
+	defer t.Done()
+	t.SetState(TaskStateRunning)
+
+	log.Infof("starting crawl task for %s", t.url)
+
+	log.Debugf("crawling %s", t.url)
+
+	links, err := GetLinks(t.url)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.WithError(err).Error("error crawling %s", t.url)
+		return t.Fail(fmt.Errorf("error crawling %s: %w", t.url, err))
+	}
+
+	for link := range links {
+		hash := HashURL(link)
+
+		if t.db.HasURL(hash) {
+			log.Debugf("seen %s (skipping)", link)
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		log.Debugf("found %s", link)
+
+		metrics.Counter("crawler", "crawled").Inc()
+
+		url := NewURL(link)
+		url.CrawledAt = time.Now()
+
+		entry, err := Scrape(t.conf, link)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.WithError(err).Warn("error scraping %s", link)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if err := t.indexer.Index(entry); err != nil {
+			log.WithError(err).Warn("error indexing %s", link)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if err := t.db.SetURL(hash, url); err != nil {
+			log.WithError(err).Warn("error recording url %s", link)
+		}
+
+		metrics.Counter("crawler", "scraped").Inc()
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/crawler.go

@@ -1,71 +1,48 @@
 package internal
 
 import (
-	"time"
-
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
 
 type Crawler interface {
 	Start()
+	Stop()
 	Crawl(url string) error
 }
 
 type crawler struct {
 	conf    *Config
+	tasks   *Dispatcher
 	db      Store
-	queue   chan string
 	indexer Indexer
+	queue   chan string
 }
 
-func NewCrawler(conf *Config, db Store, indexer Indexer) (Crawler, error) {
+func NewCrawler(conf *Config, tasks *Dispatcher, db Store, indexer Indexer) (Crawler, error) {
 	return &crawler{
 		conf:    conf,
+		tasks:   tasks,
 		db:      db,
-		queue:   make(chan string),
 		indexer: indexer,
+		queue:   make(chan string),
 	}, nil
 }
 
 func (c *crawler) loop() {
 	for {
-		url := <-c.queue
+		select {
-		log.Debugf("crawling %s", url)
+		case url, ok := <-c.queue:
-
+			if !ok {
-		links, err := GetLinks(url)
+				log.Debugf("crawler shutting down...")
-		if err != nil {
+				return
-			log.WithError(err).Error("error crawling %s", url)
-			continue
-		}
-
-		for link := range links {
-			hash := HashURL(link)
-
-			if c.db.HasURL(hash) {
-				log.Debugf("seen %s (skipping)", link)
-				continue
 			}
-
+			log.Debugf("crawling %s", url)
-			log.Debugf("found %s", link)
+			uuid, err := c.tasks.Dispatch(NewCrawlTask(c.conf, c.db, c.indexer, url))
-
-			metrics.Counter("crawler", "crawled").Inc()
-
-			url := NewURL(link)
-			url.CrawledAt = time.Now()
-
-			entry, err := Scrape(c.conf, link)
 			if err != nil {
-				log.WithError(err).Error("error scraping %s", link)
+				log.WithError(err).Error("error creating crawl task for %s", url)
 			} else {
-				if err := c.indexer.Index(entry); err != nil {
+				taskURL := URLForTask(c.conf.BaseURL, uuid)
-					log.WithError(err).Error("error indexing %s", link)
+				log.WithField("uuid", uuid).Infof("successfully created crawl task for %s: %s", url, taskURL)
-				} else {
-					if err := c.db.SetURL(hash, url); err != nil {
-						log.WithError(err).Error("error recording url %s", link)
-					} else {
-						metrics.Counter("crawler", "scraped").Inc()
-					}
-				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -76,6 +53,10 @@ func (c *crawler) Crawl(url string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (c *crawler) Stop() {
+	close(c.queue)
+}
+
 func (c *crawler) Start() {
 	go c.loop()
 }

internal/dispatcher.go

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+)
+
+// Dispatcher maintains a pool for available workers
+// and a task queue that workers will process
+type Dispatcher struct {
+	maxWorkers int
+	maxQueue   int
+	workers    []*Worker
+	workerPool chan chan Task
+	taskQueue  chan Task
+	taskMap    map[string]Task
+	quit       chan bool
+	active     bool
+}
+
+// NewDispatcher creates a new dispatcher with the given
+// number of workers and buffers the task queue based on maxQueue.
+// It also initializes the channels for the worker pool and task queue
+func NewDispatcher(maxWorkers int, maxQueue int) *Dispatcher {
+	return &Dispatcher{
+		maxWorkers: maxWorkers,
+		maxQueue:   maxQueue,
+	}
+}
+
+// Start creates and starts workers, adding them to the worker pool.
+// Then, it starts a select loop to wait for tasks to be dispatched
+// to available workers
+func (d *Dispatcher) Start() {
+	d.workers = []*Worker{}
+	d.workerPool = make(chan chan Task, d.maxWorkers)
+	d.taskQueue = make(chan Task, d.maxQueue)
+	d.taskMap = make(map[string]Task)
+	d.quit = make(chan bool)
+
+	for i := 0; i < d.maxWorkers; i++ {
+		worker := NewWorker(d.workerPool)
+		worker.Start()
+		d.workers = append(d.workers, worker)
+	}
+
+	d.active = true
+
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case task := <-d.taskQueue:
+				go func(task Task) {
+					taskChannel := <-d.workerPool
+					taskChannel <- task
+				}(task)
+			case <-d.quit:
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// Stop ends execution for all workers and closes all channels, then removes
+// all workers
+func (d *Dispatcher) Stop() {
+	if !d.active {
+		return
+	}
+
+	d.active = false
+
+	for i := range d.workers {
+		d.workers[i].Stop()
+	}
+
+	d.workers = []*Worker{}
+	d.quit <- true
+}
+
+// Lookup returns the matching `Task` given its id
+func (d *Dispatcher) Lookup(id string) (Task, bool) {
+	task, ok := d.taskMap[id]
+	return task, ok
+}
+
+// Dispatch pushes the given task into the task queue.
+// The first available worker will perform the task
+func (d *Dispatcher) Dispatch(task Task) (string, error) {
+	if !d.active {
+		return "", errors.New("dispatcher is not active")
+	}
+
+	d.taskQueue <- task
+	d.taskMap[task.ID()] = task
+	return task.ID(), nil
+}
+
+// DispatchFunc pushes the given func into the task queue by first wrapping
+// it with a `TaskFunc` task.
+func (d *Dispatcher) DispatchFunc(f func() error) (string, error) {
+	return d.Dispatch(NewFuncTask(f))
+}

internal/dispatcher_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestDispatcher_Dispatch(t *testing.T) {
+	a := 0
+	aMu := sync.RWMutex{}
+
+	b := 0
+	bMu := sync.RWMutex{}
+
+	c := 0
+	cMu := sync.RWMutex{}
+
+	d := NewDispatcher(10, 3)
+	d.Start()
+
+	_, _ = d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+		aMu.Lock()
+		a = 1
+		aMu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	_, _ = d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+		bMu.Lock()
+		b = 2
+		bMu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	_, _ = d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+		cMu.Lock()
+		c = 3
+		cMu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	time.Sleep(time.Second)
+
+	aMu.RLock()
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, a)
+	aMu.RUnlock()
+
+	bMu.RLock()
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, b)
+	bMu.RUnlock()
+
+	cMu.RLock()
+	assert.Equal(t, 3, c)
+	cMu.RUnlock()
+}
+
+func TestDispatcher_Dispatch_Mutex(t *testing.T) {
+	n := 100
+	mu := &sync.RWMutex{}
+
+	d := NewDispatcher(10, n)
+	d.Start()
+
+	var v []int
+
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		_, _ = d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+			mu.Lock()
+			v = append(v, 0)
+			mu.Unlock()
+			return nil
+		})
+	}
+
+	time.Sleep(time.Second)
+
+	mu.RLock()
+	assert.Equal(t, n, len(v))
+	mu.RUnlock()
+}
+
+func TestDispatcher_Stop(t *testing.T) {
+	c := 0
+	mu := sync.RWMutex{}
+
+	d := NewDispatcher(1, 3)
+	d.Start()
+
+	_, _ = d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+		mu.Lock()
+		c++
+		mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 100)
+	d.Stop()
+	time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 100)
+
+	_, err := d.DispatchFunc(func() error {
+		mu.Lock()
+		c++
+		mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	})
+	assert.NotNil(t, err)
+}

internal/func_task.go

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package internal
+
+import "fmt"
+
+type FuncTask struct {
+	*BaseTask
+
+	f func() error
+}
+
+func NewFuncTask(f func() error) *FuncTask {
+	return &FuncTask{
+		BaseTask: NewBaseTask(),
+
+		f: f,
+	}
+}
+
+func (t *FuncTask) String() string { return fmt.Sprintf("%T: %s", t, t.ID()) }
+func (t *FuncTask) Run() error {
+	defer t.Done()
+	t.SetState(TaskStateRunning)
+
+	return t.f()
+}

internal/server.go

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ type Server struct {
 	// Scheduler
 	cron *cron.Cron
 
+	// Dispatcher
+	tasks *Dispatcher
+
 	// Auth
 	am *auth.Manager
 
@@ -93,6 +96,8 @@ func (s *Server) AddShutdownHook(f func()) {
 // Shutdown ...
 func (s *Server) Shutdown(ctx context.Context) error {
 	s.cron.Stop()
+	s.tasks.Stop()
+	s.crawler.Stop()
 
 	if err := s.server.Shutdown(ctx); err != nil {
 		log.WithError(err).Error("error shutting down server")
@@ -300,6 +305,9 @@ func (s *Server) initRoutes() {
 	s.router.GET("/chpasswd", s.ResetPasswordMagicLinkHandler())
 	s.router.POST("/chpasswd", s.NewPasswordHandler())
 
+	// Task State
+	s.router.GET("/task/:uuid", s.TaskHandler())
+
 	s.router.GET("/add", s.AddHandler())
 	s.router.POST("/add", s.AddHandler())
 
@@ -362,22 +370,12 @@ func NewServer(bind string, options ...Option) (*Server, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	indexer, err := NewIndexer(config)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.WithError(err).Error("error creating indexer")
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	crawler, err := NewCrawler(config, db, indexer)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.WithError(err).Error("error creating crawler")
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
 	router := NewRouter()
 
 	am := auth.NewManager(auth.NewOptions("/login", "/register"))
 
+	tasks := NewDispatcher(10, 100) // TODO: Make this configurable?
+
 	pm := passwords.NewScryptPasswords(nil)
 
 	sc := NewSessionStore(db, config.SessionCacheTTL)
@@ -392,6 +390,18 @@ func NewServer(bind string, options ...Option) (*Server, error) {
 		sc,
 	)
 
+	indexer, err := NewIndexer(config)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.WithError(err).Error("error creating indexer")
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	crawler, err := NewCrawler(config, tasks, db, indexer)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.WithError(err).Error("error creating crawler")
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	api := NewAPI(router, config, db, pm)
 
 	csrfHandler := nosurf.New(router)
@@ -430,6 +440,9 @@ func NewServer(bind string, options ...Option) (*Server, error) {
 		// Schedular
 		cron: cron.New(),
 
+		// Dispatcher
+		tasks: tasks,
+
 		// Auth Manager
 		am: am,
 
@@ -448,6 +461,9 @@ func NewServer(bind string, options ...Option) (*Server, error) {
 	server.cron.Start()
 	log.Info("started background jobs")
 
+	server.tasks.Start()
+	log.Info("started task dispatcher")
+
 	server.crawler.Start()
 	log.Infof("started crawler")
 

internal/task.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package internal
+
+import "fmt"
+
+type TaskState int
+
+const (
+	TaskStatePending TaskState = iota
+	TaskStateRunning
+	TaskStateComplete
+	TaskStateFailed
+)
+
+func (t TaskState) String() string {
+	switch t {
+	case TaskStatePending:
+		return "pending"
+	case TaskStateRunning:
+		return "running"
+	case TaskStateComplete:
+		return "complete"
+	case TaskStateFailed:
+		return "failed"
+	default:
+		return "unknown"
+	}
+}
+
+type TaskData map[string]string
+
+type TaskResult struct {
+	State string   `json:"state"`
+	Error string   `json:"error"`
+	Data  TaskData `json:"data"`
+}
+
+// Task is an interface that represents a single task to be executed by a
+// worker. Any object can implement a `Task` if it implements the interface.
+type Task interface {
+	fmt.Stringer
+
+	ID() string
+	State() TaskState
+	Result() TaskResult
+	Error() error
+	Run() error
+}

internal/task_handler.go

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter"
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// TaskHandler ...
+func (s *Server) TaskHandler() httprouter.Handle {
+	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, p httprouter.Params) {
+		uuid := p.ByName("uuid")
+
+		if uuid == "" {
+			log.Warn("no task uuid provided")
+			http.Error(w, "Bad Request", http.StatusBadRequest)
+			return
+		}
+
+		t, ok := s.tasks.Lookup(uuid)
+		if !ok {
+			log.Warnf("no task found by uuid: %s", uuid)
+			http.Error(w, "Task Not Found", http.StatusNotFound)
+			return
+		}
+
+		data, err := json.Marshal(t.Result())
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			return
+		}
+
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write(data)
+
+	}
+}

internal/utils.go

@@ -381,6 +381,14 @@ func URLForCached(baseURL, hash string) string {
 	)
 }
 
+func URLForTask(baseURL, uuid string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(
+		"%s/task/%s",
+		strings.TrimSuffix(baseURL, "/"),
+		uuid,
+	)
+}
+
 // SafeParseInt ...
 func SafeParseInt(s string, d int) int {
 	n, e := strconv.Atoi(s)

internal/worker.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package internal
+
+import (
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// Worker attaches to a provided worker pool, and
+// looks for tasks on its task channel
+type Worker struct {
+	workerPool  chan chan Task
+	taskChannel chan Task
+	quit        chan bool
+}
+
+// NewWorker creates a new worker using the given id and
+// attaches to the provided worker pool. It also initializes
+// the task/quit channels
+func NewWorker(workerPool chan chan Task) *Worker {
+	return &Worker{
+		workerPool:  workerPool,
+		taskChannel: make(chan Task),
+		quit:        make(chan bool),
+	}
+}
+
+// Start initializes a select loop to listen for tasks to execute
+func (w *Worker) Start() {
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			w.workerPool <- w.taskChannel
+
+			select {
+			case task := <-w.taskChannel:
+				if err := task.Run(); err != nil {
+					log.WithError(err).Errorf("error running task %s", task)
+				}
+			case <-w.quit:
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// Stop will end the task select loop for the worker
+func (w *Worker) Stop() {
+	go func() {
+		w.quit <- true
+	}()
+}