I'm trying to make a sort of real time auction site with each auction ideally lasting only as long as people are bidding. If no new bids are detected within a few seconds of the last bid, then the auction will close. Originally, I did this by having an event fire off when someone bids that sleeps for a few seconds and then checks if there are any new bids when it finally runs. It worked but then I realized that the event queue would get clogged by all of these inactivity checker events.
Is there a way to remove specific events from the queue? Or some other better way to do this? Thanks.
You're right, sleeping in code is not the best approach. Instead you can dispatch a job to some time in future:
CloseAuctionJob::dispatch($auction)->dispatch()->delay(300);
So the job will be actually executed by queue worker after 5 minutes (300 seconds). But you should know this is not guaranteed and the job may be run later, it depends on number of workers and number of jobs in a queue. This may be critical to your app.
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