There are inherent issues with task blocking which mean that it has
never worked properly. It is also very buggy and can lead to massive
performance issues with task processing.
It is almost impossible to deprecate this in a staged fashion because
various APIs use the methods and it is not possible to determine which
are API uses and which are other valid uses.
In reality there has been little-to-no uptake on the use of this feature
and it should just be removed.
This has been generated running the following Sniff,
part of the Moodle's CodeSniffer standard:
- PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration
It just ensures all the function declarations have
the correct order for:
- abstract and final.
- visibility (public, protected, private).
- static.
So, all the lines modified by this commit are function declarations
and the only changes are in the positions of those keywords.
This has been generated running the following Sniffs, all
them part of the Moodle's CodeSniffer standard:
- PSR12.Functions.ReturnTypeDeclaration
- PSR12.Functions.NullableTypeDeclaration
- moodle.Methods.MethodDeclarationSpacing
- Squiz.Whitespace.ScopeKeywordSpacing
All them are, exclusively, about correct spacing, so the changes
are, all them, only white space changes.
Only exceptions to the above are 3 changes what were setting the
return type in a new line, and, when that happens, the closing
parenthesis (bracket) has to go to the same line than the colon.
For sites that rely on environment variables to set configuration,
ensure they are also present when executing task process.
Co-authored-by: Olivier Wenger <olivier.wenger@liip.ch>
It's better for the task to fail gracefully rather than silently
swallow any errors, so that the task API can schedule re-tries.
If the endpoint is temporarily down and/or misbehaving, this will
allow admins to have clearer failures.
Co-authored-by: Stevani Andolo <stevani.andolo@moodle.com>
Including in this commit:
- Added a new counter called attemptsavailable for ad-hoc task
- PHPUnit test for the new feature
The above syntax is defined as supported by the class, for example the
format '5/10' means:
"At every 10th <unit> from 5 through <max>."
It is analogous to '5-<max>/10'.
Following MDL-52846 this now finally deprecates and removes the
following classes:
- \core\task\legacy_plugin_cron_task.
- \mod_quiz\task\legacy_quiz_reports_cron
- \mod_quiz\task\legacy_quiz_accessrules_cron
- \mod_workshop\task\legacy_workshop_allocation_cron
Please, use the Task API instead:
https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/subsystems/task
This also removes the corresponding and specific to legacy cron strings
from mod_quiz and mod_workshop.
Following MDL-52846 this now finally deprecates and removes the
functions:
- cron_execute_plugin_type()
- cron_bc_hack_plugin_functions()
Please, use the Task API instead:
https://moodledev.io/docs/apis/subsystems/task
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ziegenberg <daniel@ziegenberg.at>
Two new scheduled tasks, show_started_courses_task and
hide_ended_courses_task have been added, to automatically change
the course visibility when the start/end course date match the
current one.
They are disabled by default, to keep the current behaviour.
When admins enable any of them, they are executed once per
day by default (around midnight).
These scheduled tasks are based on the "CUL Course Visibility Update"
third-party plugin created by Tim Gagen and refactored and currently
maintained by Amanda Doughty:
https://moodle.org/plugins/local_culcourse_visibility
Thanks!! :-)
* all constans usable in ABORT_AFTER_CONFIG should be always defined
* MDL_PERFDB and $PERF->logwrites not used after legacy log removal
* MDL_PERF_TEST should be documented in codebase
* deprecated warnings in shutdowb manager
Previously, a set of calculated quiz statistics would only 'last' for
15 minutes. Then they would be considered invalid and not used.
Now, computed statistics are kept indefinitely. Instead, when a new
batch of values are computed for a particular set of settings, older numbers
for the same settings are deleted first. Therefore,
question_stats_cleanup_task is no more.
