GearmanClient::doBackground

(PECL gearman >= 0.5.0)

GearmanClient::doBackgroundRun a task in the background

Description

public GearmanClient::doBackground(string $function_name, string $workload, string $unique = ?): string

Runs a task in the background, returning a job handle which can be used to get the status of the running task.

Parameters

function_name

A registered function the worker is to execute

workload

Serialized data to be processed

unique

A unique ID used to identify a particular task

Return Values

The job handle for the submitted task.

Examples

Example #1 Submit and monitor a background job

The worker in this example has an artificial delay introduced to mimic a long running job. The client script periodically checks the status of the running job.

<?php

/* create our object */
$gmclient= new GearmanClient();

/* add the default server */
$gmclient->addServer();

/* run reverse client */
$job_handle = $gmclient->doBackground("reverse", "this is a test");

if (
$gmclient->returnCode() != GEARMAN_SUCCESS)
{
echo
"bad return code\n";
exit;
}

$done = false;
do
{
sleep(3);
$stat = $gmclient->jobStatus($job_handle);
if (!
$stat[0]) // the job is known so it is not done
$done = true;
echo
"Running: " . ($stat[1] ? "true" : "false") . ", numerator: " . $stat[2] . ", denominator: " . $stat[3] . "\n";
}
while(!
$done);

echo
"done!\n";

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Running: true, numerator: 3, denominator: 14
Running: true, numerator: 6, denominator: 14
Running: true, numerator: 9, denominator: 14
Running: true, numerator: 12, denominator: 14
Running: false, numerator: 0, denominator: 0
done!

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