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.
The enabled state of a plugin is a tri-state value (boolean or
null). We should be consistent with elsewhere by only considering
boolean false as an actually disabled plugin.
See also cdcb53a1 for similar change in task management.
Allow adhoc tasks to implement this method, so they too can have
descriptive names for themselves. Default implementation added to
return the class name itself.
When defining settings that are used by scheduled tasks,
it is also useful, or even needed, to know the status
of that scheduled task to have the whole big picture of
that part of the system.
Based on the admin_setting_description, this new setting
reports its name, its status, a link to the configuration.
When adding a new setting of this type, the user can add
an extra description field to complete the whole meaning.
Centralise management of all types of cron tasks with registration, scheduling,
parallel task conflicts(blocking) and running once off tasks, all using an
administration screen.
This is a combination of several issues:
MDL-25502: Added "black magic" task allocator for cron
MDL-25503: Add step to cron to run all scheduled tasks
MDL-25504 cron: Refactor to use scheduler
MDL-25505: Add an admin interface to schedule tasks via cron.
MDL-25507: Add support for adhoc tasks.
