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)->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.
Many thanks. This is helpful to know, though I feel that it could still end up with there being too many close auction jobs on the queue. Still much better than what I originally did.
I'm still very new to reverb and went from making a very small scale chat app to a potentially large auction app in the span of one project so I feel out of my depth.
Sorry, I just realized that I call events using broadcast inside an event, not through jobs. Delay doesn't seem to be something I can use with broadcast.
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