Dispatch Laravel jobs via Artisan

This package can register jobs as Artisan commands. All you need to do is let your job implement the empty ArtisanDispatchable interface.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;

class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

This allows the job to be executed via Artisan.

php artisan process-podcast

Why we created this package

Laravel's scheduler will perform all tasks sequentially. When you add a scheduled task to the scheduler, the task should perform its work as fast as possible, so no other tasks will have to wait.

If you have a task that needs to run every minute and its runtime is close to a minute, you should not use a simple Artisan command, as this will result in the delay of all other minute-ly tasks.

Long-running tasks should be performed by jobs that perform their work on the queue. Laravel has the ability to schedule queued jobs. This way, those tasks will not block the scheduler.

$schedule->job(new ProcessPodcast)->everyFiveMinutes();

The downside of this approach is that you cannot run that job via Artisan anymore. You have to choose between using an artisan command + blocking the scheduler on the one hand, and job + not blocking the scheduler on the other hand.

Using our package, you don't have to make that choice anymore. When letting your job implement Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable, you will not block the scheduler and can still execute the logic via Artisan.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-artisan-dispatchable

Optionally, you can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\ArtisanDispatchableServiceProvider" --tag="artisan-dispatchable-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    /*
     * These directories will be scanned for dispatchable jobs. They
     * will be registered automatically to Artisan.
     */
    'auto_discover_dispatchable_jobs' => [
        app()->path(),
    ],

    /*
     * This directory will be used as the base path when scanning
     * for dispatchable jobs.
     */
    'auto_discover_base_path' => base_path(),

    /*
     * In production, you likely don't want the package to auto-discover dispatchable
     * jobs every time Artisan is invoked. The package can cache discovered job.
     *
     * Here you can specify where the cache should be stored.
     */
    'cache_file' => storage_path('app/artisan-dispatchable/artisan-dispatchable-jobs.php'),

    /**
     * Here you can specify the prefix to be used for all dispatchable jobs.
     */
    'command_name_prefix' => '',
];

Usage

All you need to do is let your job implement the empty ArtisanDispatchable interface.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;

class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

This allows the job to be executed via Artisan.

php artisan process-podcast

This job will not be queued, but will be immediately executed inside the executed artisan command.

Queueing jobs via Artisan

If you want to put your job on the queue instead of executing it immediately, add the queued option.

php artisan process-podcast --queued

Passing arguments to a job

If your job has constructor arguments, you may pass those arguments via options on the artisan command.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;


class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
    public function __construct(
        string $myFirstArgument, 
    ) {}

    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

Via artisan, you can call the job like this

php artisan process-podcast --my-first-argument="My string value"

Using Eloquent models as arguments

If your job argument is an eloquent model, you may pass the id of the model to the artisan command option.

use App\Models\Podcast;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;

class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
    public function __construct(
        Podcast $podcast, 
    ) {}

    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

Here's how you can execute this job with podcast id 1234

php artisan process-podcast --podcast="1234"

Customizing the name of the command

By default, the artisan command name of a job, is the base name of job in kebab-case.

You can set a custom name by setting a property named artisanName on your job.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;

class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
     public string $artisanName = 'my-app:process-my-podcast';

    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

This job can now be executed with this command:

php artisan my-app:process-my-podcast

Customizing the description of the command

To add a description to the list of artisan commands, add a property $artisanDescription to your job.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Spatie\ArtisanDispatchable\Jobs\ArtisanDispatchable;

class ProcessPodcast implements ShouldQueue, ArtisanDispatchable
{
    public string $artisanDescription = 'This a custom description';

    public function handle()
    {
        // perform some work...
    }
}

Prefixing all commands

You can specify a prefix in the command_name_prefix key of the config file. When this is for example set to my-custom-prefix, then you would be able to call MyDispatchableJob with this command:

php artisan my-custom-prefix:process-my-podcast

Caching discovered jobs

This package can automatically discover jobs that implement ArtisanDispatchable and what their artisan command should be through looping through all classes and performing some reflection. In a local environment this is perfect, as the performance hit is not too bad, and you don't have to do anything special besides letting your job implement ArtisanDispatchable.

In a production environment, you probably don't want to loop through all classes on every request. The package contains a command to cache all discovered jobs.

php artisan artisan-dispatchable:cache-artisan-dispatchable-jobs

You probably want to call that command during your deployment of your app. This will create cache file at the location specified in the cache_file key of the artisan-dispatchable config file.

Should you want to clear the cache, you can execute this command:

php artisan artisan-dispatchable:clear-artisan-dispatchable-jobs

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.