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@HypeMC HypeMC commented Jan 13, 2024

Q A
Branch? 7.2
Bug fix? no
New feature? yes
Deprecations? no
Issues Fix #47920
License MIT

Part of #53508

This PR introduces the ability to schedule alarm signals and a console.alarm event. A command using this feature will automatically dispatch an alarm at the specified interval:

#[AsCommand('app:alarm')]
class AlarmCommand extends Command implements SignalableCommandInterface
{
    private bool $run = true;
    private int $count = 0;
    private OutputInterface $output;

    protected function initialize(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): void
    {
        $this->getApplication()->setAlarmInterval(10);
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
    {
        $this->output = $output;

        while ($this->run) {
            $this->count++;
            $output->writeln('execute '.$this->count);
            sleep(1);
        }

        $output->writeln('Done');

        return Command::SUCCESS;
    }

    public function getSubscribedSignals(): array
    {
        return [\SIGINT, \SIGALRM];
    }

    public function handleSignal(int $signal, false|int $previousExitCode = 0): int|false
    {
        if (\SIGINT === $signal) {
            $this->run = false;
            $this->output->writeln('Bye');
        } elseif (\SIGALRM === $signal) {
            $this->count = 0;
            $this->output->writeln('handleAlarm');
        }

        return false;
    }
}

The console.alarm event is dispatched on every SIGALRM signal:

#[AsEventListener(event: ConsoleAlarmEvent::class)]
final class ConsoleAlarmListener
{
    public function __invoke(ConsoleAlarmEvent $event): void
    {
        $event->getOutput()->writeln('ConsoleAlarmListener');
    }
}

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valtzu commented May 7, 2024

Btw, SIGALRM has the same effect as any other signal – it interrupts sleep & usleep. According to docs, one should check based on return code if the sleep was interrupted but I doubt many do that – and usleep returns void so for that it's impossible.

So if a command logic f.e. includes sleep(30); or $clock->sleep(30);, it will only sleep until next alarm, potentially causing unexpected behavior.


Another (old) thing I found that using SIGALRM to provide timer functionality may result in deadlock – not sure if it's still relevant (or if it ever was, for php).

@xabbuh xabbuh modified the milestones: 7.1, 7.2 May 15, 2024
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cc @chalasr

we're running a userland implementation in prod, it works fine

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if (!$this->signalRegistry) {
throw new RuntimeException('Unable to subscribe to signal events. Make sure that the "pcntl" extension is installed and that "pcntl_*" functions are not disabled by your php.ini\'s "disable_functions" directive.');
}
$signalRegistry = $this->getSignalRegistry();
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getSignalRegistry throws a nearly identical exception, so it made sense to me to have it centralized.

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The implementation is now much simpler, looks good to me 👍

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fabpot commented Oct 6, 2024

Thank you @HypeMC.

@fabpot fabpot merged commit 85380cf into symfony:7.2 Oct 6, 2024
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…which messages are still being processed (HypeMC)

This PR was merged into the 7.2 branch.

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[Console][Messenger] Asynchronously notify transports which messages are still being processed

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.2
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | yes
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | -
| License       | MIT

Certain transports, such as Beanstalkd, have a timeout that determines how long a certain message is considered as "in progress". If the message is not acknowledged or rejected within that time period, it is returned to the "ready" queue.

This could cause potential issues when it takes a handler longer to finish processing the message. In those instances, the message being processed could be returned to the ready queue and taken by another instance of the receiver. This would result in the message being processed multiple times, or even worse, in an infinite loop.

Usually, transports that have a timeout also have the option to be notified that the message is still being processed, so the timeout can be postponed.

The idea of this PR is to utilize the `SignalableCommandInterface` and `pcntl_alarm()` to notify transports which messages are still being processed. Since the `SignalRegistry` has [asynchronous signals enabled](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/34915f6e16f04537eb18d9d2c303ec375e63cc4b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/SignalRegistry/SignalRegistry.php#L21) by default, the whole process would happen asynchronously. I've named this feature "keepalive" for lack of a better name.

Currently, I've added this option only to the Beanstalkd transport since that's the one I'm familiar with and use, but as far as I was able to gather, at least one other transport supports this feature. Amazon SQS has a visibility timeout which can be [increased](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-visibility-timeout.html#changing-message-visibility-timeout). This visibility timeout seems to be the same thing as Beanstalkd's TTR. (Disclaimer: I've never used Amazon SQS, so if I got something wrong, please let me know.)

I've split the PR into two commits so it would (hopefully) be easier to review:

1. I've extracted the first commit into a separate PR: #53533
2. The second commit adds the keepalive feature to the Messenger component.

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57b556a [Messenger] Notify transports which messages are still being processed, using `pcntl_alarm()`
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Thanks for working on this @HypeMC!

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This PR was merged into the 7.2 branch.

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[Console] Fix tests

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.2
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | -
| License       | MIT

The Console test suite was not running correctly since #53533.
See unit tests on 7.2/7.3:

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/cc `@theofidry`

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838eb95 [Console] Fix tests
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