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Messenger! Queue work for Later

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Symfony's Messenger component offers a robust system for structuring your code around "message" objects and decoupled "handlers," allowing for asynchronous execution through queues and workers. It’s a powerful feature designed to streamline various processes.

Introduction to Symfony Messenger

The Messenger component, one of Symfony's latest innovations, is quickly gaining love from developers. This tutorial will guide you through creating an application that asynchronously adds our favorite cat, Ponka, to all of your cherished photos. Through this engaging project, you’ll learn to master the Messenger component.

What You Will Learn

By following this tutorial, you will acquire the skills to:

  • Create message classes
  • Build and configure "handler" classes to perform specific tasks
  • Dispatch messages through the message bus
  • Configure "transports" for managing asynchronous messages
  • Route messages to their designated transports
  • Execute "worker" processes that handle queued messages
  • Manage failure scenarios by retrying messages and setting up a "failure transport"
  • Integrate and utilize middleware for message handling
  • Apply and understand message stamps for advanced message handling
  • Set up prioritized transports for optimal message routing
  • Introduce a bit of CQRS with a Query bus
  • Test and develop by handling messages synchronously
  • Streamline deployment with supervisor and related tools
  • Work with RabbitMQ and AMQP for effective message brokering

Get Started

Let’s dive into the world of Symfony Messenger and get to work on building an efficient, asynchronous message processing system!

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SymfonyCasts (formerly KnpUniversity) is a US-based PHP / Symfony training platform run by Ryan Weaver, a Symfony core team member. The platform is the closest thing to an official video-tutorial source for the Symfony framework — Ryan's tutorials are the path most working Symfony developers learned the framework through.

The CourseFlix listing carries five SymfonyCasts titles: Symfony 5 Fundamentals — Services, Config & Environments, API Platform — Serious RESTful APIs, Messenger! Queue Work for Later, phpspec — Testing / Designing with a Bite, and the SymfonyCon 2018 Lisbon Conference Videos. Material is paid and aimed at PHP developers building production Symfony applications.

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#Lesson TitleDurationAccess
1
Installing Messenger Demo
06:15
2
Message, Handler & the Bus
08:36
3
Doing Work in the Handler
06:33
4
Message, Handler & debug:messenger
05:52
5
Transport: Do Work Later (Async)
07:33
6
Worker Command
05:34
7
Problems with Entities in Messages
04:54
8
Passing Entity Ids inside of Messages
08:01
9
Dispatching a Message inside a Handler?
05:30
10
Partial Handler Failures & Advanced Routing
04:36
11
Envelopes & Stamps
06:24
12
Retrying on Failure
05:11
13
Retry Delay & Retry Strategy
04:41
14
The Failure Transport
05:37
15
Investigating & Retrying Failed Messages
05:42
16
Middleware
05:59
17
Tracking Messages with Middleware & a Stamp
05:31
18
Logger Channel Setup and Autowiring
05:27
19
Middleware Message Lifecycle Logging
07:48
20
High Priority Transports
05:41
21
Handling Messages Sync while Developing
05:54
22
Functional Test for the Upload Endpoint
09:23
23
Testing with the "in-memory" Transport
05:26
24
Deployment & Supervisor
09:08
25
Killing Workers Early & on Deploy
05:55
26
Events & Event Bus
05:23
27
Creating & Handling Events
07:55
28
Dispatching the Event & No Handlers
07:07
29
Messenger vs EventDispatcher
03:19
30
Doctrine Transaction & Validation Middleware
05:59
31
Event & Command Bus Organization
07:23
32
Query Bus
08:48
33
Advanced Handler Config: Handler Subscribers
07:59
34
Sending Handlers to Different Transports: from_transport
03:22
35
AMQP with RabbitMQ
07:22
36
AMQP Internals: Exchanges & Queues
08:11
37
AMQP Priority Exchange
07:16
38
Delaying in AMQP: Dead Letter Exchange
07:23
39
Exchange Routing and Binding Keys
06:39
40
Dynamic AMQP Routing Key (AmqpStamp)
07:51
41
Serializing Messages as JSON
06:41
42
JSON, Message Headers & Serializer Options
03:15
43
Setup for Messages from an Outside System
06:01
44
Transport for Consuming External Messages
05:51
45
Custom Transport Serializer
06:34
46
The Lifecycle of a Message & its Stamps
08:17
47
Graceful Failure in the Transport Serializer
04:48
48
Mapping Messages to Classes in a Transport Serializer
04:56
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48 lessons · 5h 5m 31s
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  1. 1 Installing Messenger 06:15
  2. 2 Message, Handler & the Bus 08:36
  3. 3 Doing Work in the Handler 06:33
  4. 4 Message, Handler & debug:messenger 05:52
  5. 5 Transport: Do Work Later (Async) 07:33
  6. 6 Worker Command 05:34
  7. 7 Problems with Entities in Messages 04:54
  8. 8 Passing Entity Ids inside of Messages 08:01
  9. 9 Dispatching a Message inside a Handler? 05:30
  10. 10 Partial Handler Failures & Advanced Routing 04:36
  11. 11 Envelopes & Stamps 06:24
  12. 12 Retrying on Failure 05:11
  13. 13 Retry Delay & Retry Strategy 04:41
  14. 14 The Failure Transport 05:37
  15. 15 Investigating & Retrying Failed Messages 05:42
  16. 16 Middleware 05:59
  17. 17 Tracking Messages with Middleware & a Stamp 05:31
  18. 18 Logger Channel Setup and Autowiring 05:27
  19. 19 Middleware Message Lifecycle Logging 07:48
  20. 20 High Priority Transports 05:41
  21. 21 Handling Messages Sync while Developing 05:54
  22. 22 Functional Test for the Upload Endpoint 09:23
  23. 23 Testing with the "in-memory" Transport 05:26
  24. 24 Deployment & Supervisor 09:08
  25. 25 Killing Workers Early & on Deploy 05:55
  26. 26 Events & Event Bus 05:23
  27. 27 Creating & Handling Events 07:55
  28. 28 Dispatching the Event & No Handlers 07:07
  29. 29 Messenger vs EventDispatcher 03:19
  30. 30 Doctrine Transaction & Validation Middleware 05:59
  31. 31 Event & Command Bus Organization 07:23
  32. 32 Query Bus 08:48
  33. 33 Advanced Handler Config: Handler Subscribers 07:59
  34. 34 Sending Handlers to Different Transports: from_transport 03:22
  35. 35 AMQP with RabbitMQ 07:22
  36. 36 AMQP Internals: Exchanges & Queues 08:11
  37. 37 AMQP Priority Exchange 07:16
  38. 38 Delaying in AMQP: Dead Letter Exchange 07:23
  39. 39 Exchange Routing and Binding Keys 06:39
  40. 40 Dynamic AMQP Routing Key (AmqpStamp) 07:51
  41. 41 Serializing Messages as JSON 06:41
  42. 42 JSON, Message Headers & Serializer Options 03:15
  43. 43 Setup for Messages from an Outside System 06:01
  44. 44 Transport for Consuming External Messages 05:51
  45. 45 Custom Transport Serializer 06:34
  46. 46 The Lifecycle of a Message & its Stamps 08:17
  47. 47 Graceful Failure in the Transport Serializer 04:48
  48. 48 Mapping Messages to Classes in a Transport Serializer 04:56

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