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.
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 $PERF->logwrites not used after legacy log removal
* MDL_PERF_TEST should be documented in codebase
* deprecated warnings in shutdowb manager
Previously, a set of calculated quiz statistics would only 'last' for
15 minutes. Then they would be considered invalid and not used.
Now, computed statistics are kept indefinitely. Instead, when a new
batch of values are computed for a particular set of settings, older numbers
for the same settings are deleted first. Therefore,
question_stats_cleanup_task is no more.
* CLI adhoc_task.php: new option --id
* cron::run_adhoc_task($taskid) for running tasks by id
* core\task\manager::get_adhoc_task($taskid) for retreival/locking
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.
This patch modifies the way copy data is shared in order to mitigate potential race conditions
and ensure that the serialised controller stored in the DB is always in a valid state.
The restore controller is now considered the "source of truth" for all information about the
copy operation. Backup controllers can no longer contain information about course copies.
As copy creation is not atomic, it is still possible for copy controllers to become orphaned or
exist in an invalid state. To mitigate this the backup cleanup task has been modified to call
a new helper method copy_helper::cleanup_orphaned_copy_controllers.
Summary of changes in this patch:
- Copy data must now be passed through the restore controller's constructor
- base_controller::get_copy has been deprecated in favour of restore_controller::get_copy
- base_controller::set_copy has been deprecated without replacement
- core_backup\copy\copy has been deprecated, use copy_helper.class.php's copy_helper instead
- backup_cleanup_task will now clean up orphaned controllers from copy operations that went awry
Thanks to Peter Burnett for assiting with testing this patch.
This patch changes the way adhoc tasks are chosen to run. It now calculates
how many runners each type of adhoc task should be allowed to use. In the
case that not all the runners are utilised, it attempts to infer which
tasks do not take a long time to run, and gives those to the vacant runners.
Thanks to Brendan Heywood for guidance and SQL help.
Sara Arjona