Logging data passed to the queue is not working as expected

Question

I am trying to work with laravel 4.1 queues. I have the code below

Queue::push('TopicQueue', array('string' => 'Hello World'));

and the TopicQueue is as follows

class TopicQueue {

    public function fire($job, $data){
         Log::info('This is from the worker thread . The data array is = '.var_export($data));

        $job->delete();

    }

} 

In the log I am getting this

[2014-05-14 03:19:02] production.INFO: This is from the worker thread . The data array is = [] []

My question is "How do I pass data , to the TopicQueue fire method ? If I am doing something wrong, can somebody please point it out for me?

Answer 1

You need to change

Log::info('This is from the worker thread . The data array is = '.var_export($data));

to

Log::info('This is from the worker thread . The data array is = '.var_export($data, true));