One-Time Operations for Laravel

Run operations once after deployment - just like you do it with migrations!

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Take your CI/CD to the next Level with One-Time Operations for Laravel! 🚀

Create specific classes for a one-time usage, that can be executed automatically after each deployment.
Same as migrations they get processed once and then never again. Perfect for seeding or updating some data instantly after
some database changes or feature updates.

This package is for you if…

• you regularly need to update specific data after you deployed new code
• you often execute jobs just only one single time after a deployment
• you sometimes forget to execute that one specific job and stuff gets crazy
• your code gets cluttered with jobs, that are not being used anymore
• your co-workers always need to be reminded to execute that one job after some database changes
• you often seed or process data in a migration file (which is a big no-no!)

Installation

Require this package with composer:

composer require timokoerber/laravel-one-time-operations

Create the required table in your database:

php artisan migrate

Now you’re all set!

Commands

Create operation files

Create new operation file:

php artisan operations:make <operation_name>

Create file without any attributes:

php artisan operations:make <operation_name> -e|--essential

Process operations

Process all new operation files:

php artisan operations:process

Force synchronous execution:

php artisan operations:process --sync

Force asynchronous execution:

php artisan operations:process --async

Test mode (don’t flag operations as processed):

php artisan operations:process --test

Run command isolated:

php artisan operations:process --isolated

Force a specific queue for the job:

php artisan operations:process --queue=<name>

Only process operations with a specific tag:

php artisan operations:process --tag=<tagname>

Re-run one specific operation:

php artisan operations:process <operation_name>

Show operations

Show all operations:

php artisan operations:show

Show pending operations:

php artisan operations:show pending

Show processed operations:

php artisan operations:show processed

Show disposed operations:

php artisan operations:show disposed

Use multiple filters to show operations:

php artisan operations:show pending processed disposed

Tutorials

CI/CD & Deployment-Process

The One-Time Operations work exactly like Laravel Migrations.
Just process the operations after your code was deployed and the migrations were migrated.
You can make it part of your deployment script like this:

...
 - php artisan migrate
 - php artisan operations:process
...

Edit config

By default, the following elements will be created in your project:

• the table operations in your database
• the directory operations in your project root directory

If you want to use a different settings just publish and edit the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="TimoKoerber\LaravelOneTimeOperations\Providers\OneTimeOperationsServiceProvider"

This will create the file config/one-time-operations.php with the following content.

// config/one-time-operation.php

return [
    'directory' => 'operations',
    'table' => 'operations',
];

Make changes as you like.

Create One-Time Operation files

To create a new operation file execute the following command:

php artisan operations:make AwesomeOperation

This will create a file like operations/XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation.php with the following content.

<?php
// operations/XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation.php

use TimoKoerber\LaravelOneTimeOperations\OneTimeOperation;

return new class extends OneTimeOperation
{
    /**
     * Determine if the operation is being processed asynchronously.
     */
    protected bool $async = true;
    
    /**
     * The queue that the job will be dispatched to.
     */
    protected string $queue = 'default';
    
    /**
     * A tag name, that this operation can be filtered by.
     */
    protected ?string $tag = null;

    /**
     * Process the operation.
     */
    public function process(): void
    {
        //
    }
};

Provide your code in the process() method, for example:

// operations/XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation.php

public function process(): void
{
    User::where('active', 1)->update(['status' => 'awesome']) // make active users awesome
}

By default, the operation is being processed asynchronously (based on your configuration) by dispatching the job OneTimeOperationProcessJob.
By default, the operation is being dispatched to the default queue of your project. Change the $queue as you wish.

You can also execute the code synchronously by setting the $async flag to false.
(this is only recommended for small operations, since the processing of these operations should be part of the deployment process)

Hint: If you use synchronous processing, the $queue attribute will be ignored (duh!).

Create a cleaner operation file

If you don’t need all the available attributes for your operation, you can create a cleaner operation file with the --essential or -e option:

php artisan operations:make AwesomeOperation --essential
php artisan operations:make AwesomeOperation -e

Custom operation file

You can provide a custom class layout in /stubs/one-time-operation.stub, which will be used to create a new operation file.

Processing the operations

Use the following call to process all new operation files.

php artisan operations:process

Your code will be executed, and you will find all the processed operations in the operations table:

id	name	dispatched	processed_at
1	XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation	async	2015-10-21 07:28:00

After that, this operation will not be processed anymore.

Dispatching Jobs synchronously or asynchronously

For each operation a OneTimeOperationProcessJob is being dispatched,
either with dispatch() oder dispatchSync() based on the $async attribute in the operation file.

By providing the --sync or --async option with the operations:process command, you can force a synchronously/asynchronously execution and ignore the attribute:

php artisan operations:process --async  // force dispatch()
php artisan operations:process --sync   // force dispatchSync()  

Hint! If operation:process is part of your deployment process, it is not recommended to process the operations synchronously,
since an error in your operation could make your whole deployment fail.

Force different queue for all operations

You can provide the --queue option in the artisan call. The given queue will be used for all operations, ignoring the $queue attribute in the class.

php artisan operations:process --queue=redis  // force redis queue 

Run commands isolated on Multi-Server Architecture

If you work with a Multi-Server Architecture you can use --isolated option to make sure to only run one instance of the command (Laravel Isolatable Commands).

php artisan operations:process --isolated 

Run only operations with a given tag

You can provide the $tag attribute in your operation file:

<?php
// operations/XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation.php

    protected ?string $tag = "awesome";
};

That way you can filter operations with this specific tag when processing the operations:

php artisan operations:process --tag=awesome  // run only operations with "awesome" tag

This is quite usefull if, for example, you want to process some of your operations before and some after the migrations:

 - php artisan operations:process --tag=before-migrations 
 - php artisan migrate
 - php artisan operations:process

You can also provide multiple tags:

php artisan operations:process --tag=awesome --tag=foobar // run only operations with "awesome" or "foobar" tag 

Hint! operations:process (without tags) still processes all operations, even if they have a tag.

Re-run an operation

If something went wrong (or if you just feel like it), you can process an operation again by providing the name of the operation as parameter in operations:process.

php artisan operations:process XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX_awesome_operation

Testing the operation

You might want to test your code a couple of times before flagging the operation as “processed”. Provide the --test flag to run the command again and again.

php artisan operations:process --test

Showing all operations

So you don’t have to check the database or the directory for the existing operations,
you can show a list with operations:show.
Filter the list with the available filters pending, processed and disposed.

• pending - Operations, that have not been processed yet
• processed - Operations, that have been processed
• disposed - Operations, that have been processed and the files were already deleted

php artisan operations:show pending           // show only pending operations
php artisan operations:show pending disposed  // show only pending and disposed operations

Deleting operations

The whole idea of this package is, that you can dispose the operations once they were executed, so your project won’t be cluttered with files and code, you won’t be using anymore.

So you just need to delete the files from your repository

The deleted operations will be shown as DISPOSED when you call operations:show, so you still have a history on all the processed operations.

Testing

composer test

License

Copyright © Timo Körber | www.timokoerber.com

“One-Time Operations for Laravel” is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.