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Queue API topic and hook_queue_info() don't link to one another

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Created on 12 May 2014, over 10 years ago
Updated 2 April 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

We have a Queue topic in Drupal 8:
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21core.api.php/group/queue/8.4.x
(if this link is broken, go to Topics in the sidebar and find the Queue topic).

It currently says nothing about how to get a queue to be processed automatically in Cron.

Also, the plugin annotation class and hook related to this (QueueWorker annotation class and hook_queue_info_alter() ) are not listed as @ingroup for this topic, so they do not show up in the Functions and Classes lists on the topic page.

Proposed resolution

a) Add a section to the Queue topic about how to make a queue processed automatically in Cron. The main points:
- A queue can be set up to be processed in Cron by defining a QueueWorker plugin.
- This plugin needs to have \Drupal\Core\Annotation\QueueWorker annotation on it
- See the docs for that annotation class for details.

b) Make sure that the QueueWorker annotation class, Drupal\Core\Queue\QueueWorkerInterface, Drupal\Core\Queue\QueueWorkerBase and hook_queue_info_alter() both have lines in their doc blocks saying:
@ingroup queue

c) Make the Queue topic and hook_cron() have @see references to each other:
@see queue [in the hook]
@see hook_cron() [in the Queue topic]

Remaining tasks

Make a patch.

User interface changes

None.

API changes

None.

Beta eval

This is just API docs, so is unfrozen in Beta.

🐛 Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

9.5

Component
Documentation  →

Last updated 3 days ago

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Created by

🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

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