Laravel Task Runner

A package to write Shell scripts like Blade Components and run them locally or on a remote server. Support for running tasks in the background and test assertions. Built upon the Process feature in Laravel 10.

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Installation

This package requires Laravel 10 and PHP 8.2 or higher. You can install the package via composer:

composer require protonemedia/laravel-task-runner

Optionally, you can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ProtoneMedia\LaravelTaskRunner\ServiceProvider"

Basic usage

You may use the Artisan make:task command to create a Task class:

php artisan make:task ComposerGlobalUpdate

This will generate two files: app/Tasks/ComposerGlobalUpdate.php and resources/views/tasks/composer-global-update.blade.php.

Once you've added your script to the Blade template, you may run it on your local machine by calling the dispatch() method:

ComposerGlobalUpdate::dispatch();

Alternatively, if you don't want a separate Blade template, you may use the --class option (or -c):

php artisan make:task ComposerGlobalUpdate -c

This allows you to specify the script inline:

class ComposerGlobalUpdate extends Task
{
    public function render(): string
    {
        return 'composer global update';
    }
}

Task output

The dispatch() method returns an instance of ProcessOutput, which can return the output and exit code:

$output = ComposerGlobalUpdate::dispatch();

$output->getBuffer();
$output->getExitCode();

$output->getLines();    // returns the buffer as an array
$output->isSuccessful();    // returns true when the exit code is 0
$output->isTimeout();    // returns true on a timeout

To interact with the underlying ProcessResult, you may call the getIlluminateResult() method:

$output->getIlluminateResult();

Script variables

Just like Blade Components, the public properties and methods of the Task class are available in the template:

class GetFile extends Task
{
    public function __construct(public string $path)
    {
    }

    public function options()
    {
        return '-n';
    }
}

Blade template:

cat {{ $options() }} {{ $path }}

You can create a new instance of the Task using the static make() method:

GetFile::make('/etc/hosts')->dispatch();

Task options

You may specify a timeout. By default, the timeout is based on the task-runner.default_timeout config value.

class ComposerGlobalUpdate extends Task
{
    protected int $timeout = 60;
}

Run in background

You may run a task in the background:

ComposerGlobalUpdate::inBackground()->dispatch();

It allows you to write the output to a file, as the dispatch() method won't return anything when the Task is still running in the background.

ComposerGlobalUpdate::inBackground()
    ->writeOutputTo(storage_path('script.output'))
    ->dispatch();

Run tasks on a remote server

In the task-runner configuration file, you may specify one or more remote servers:

return [
    'connections' => [
        // 'production' => [
        //     'host' => '',
        //     'port' => '',
        //     'username' => '',
        //     'private_key' => '',
        //     'private_key_path' => '',
        //     'passphrase' => '',
        //     'script_path' => '',
        // ],
    ],
];

Now you may call the onConnection() method before calling other methods:

ComposerGlobalUpdate::onConnection('production')->dispatch();

ComposerGlobalUpdate::onConnection('production')->inBackground()->dispatch();

Task test assertions

You may call the fake() method to prevent tasks from running and make assertions after acting:

use ProtoneMedia\LaravelTaskRunner\Facades\TaskRunner;

/** @test */
public function it_updates_composer_globally()
{
    TaskRunner::fake();

    $this->post('/api/composer/global-update');

    TaskRunner::assertDispatched(ComposerGlobalUpdate::class);
}

You may also use a callback to investigate the Task further:

TaskRunner::assertDispatched(function (ComposerGlobalUpdate $task) {
    return $task->foo === 'bar';
});

If you type-hint the Task with PendingTask, you may verify the configuration:

use ProtoneMedia\LaravelTaskRunner\PendingTask;

TaskRunner::assertDispatched(ComposerGlobalUpdate::class, function (PendingTask $task) {
    return $task->shouldRunInBackground();
});

TaskRunner::assertDispatched(ComposerGlobalUpdate::class, function (PendingTask $task) {
    return $task->shouldRunOnConnection('production');
});

To fake just some of the tasks, you may call the fake() method with a class or array of classes:

TaskRunner::fake(ComposerGlobalUpdate::class);
TaskRunner::fake([ComposerGlobalUpdate::class]);

Alternatively, you may fake everything except a specific task:

TaskRunner::fake()->dontFake(ComposerGlobalUpdate::class);

You may also supply a fake Task output:

TaskRunner::fake([
    ComposerGlobalUpdate::class => 'Updating dependencies'
]);

Or use the ProcessOutput class to set the exit code as well:

use ProtoneMedia\LaravelTaskRunner\ProcessOutput;

TaskRunner::fake([
    ComposerGlobalUpdate::class => ProcessOutput::make('Updating dependencies')->setExitCode(1);
]);

When you specify the Task output, you may also prevent unlisted Tasks from running:

TaskRunner::preventStrayTasks();

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

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Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email pascal@protone.media instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Pascal Baljet
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.