Laravel 9 Queue Job scenarios with 'The payload is invalid' scenarios When Using Redis
I'm integrating two systems and I need some guidance on This might be a silly question, but I'm working with an scenario with my Laravel 9 application where queued jobs are failing with the behavior message 'The payload is invalid'... I've set up Redis as my queue driver, and everything seems configured correctly. However, when I dispatch a job, it fails immediately. Here's the relevant part of my job class: ```php namespace App\Jobs; use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable; use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue; use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable; use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels; class ProcessData implements ShouldQueue { use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels; protected $data; public function __construct($data) { $this->data = $data; } public function handle() { // Process the data // Potentially long-running task } } ``` I dispatch the job like this: ```php ProcessData::dispatch($myData); ``` In my `config/queue.php`, I have set the default connection to Redis: ```php 'connections' => [ 'redis' => [ 'driver' => 'redis', 'connection' => 'default', ], ], ``` I’ve also checked the Redis server and confirmed that it’s running without issues. However, when I monitor the queue, I see the job getting added but immediately failing with the aforementioned behavior. I tried clearing the cache and re-queueing the job, but it didn’t help. Could this be related to the serialization of the job payload? I've read that complex data structures in the job’s constructor could lead to serialization issues. Any suggestions on how to diagnose or fix this question would be greatly appreciated! Is there a better approach? I'm working in a Debian environment. Any ideas what could be causing this? Am I missing something obvious?