Silverstripe Asynchronous Publishing

Pushes writing and publishing to a Queued Job to avoid in-browser timeouts

Installation

composer require andrewandante/silverstripe-async-publisher

Once the module is installed, simply apply AndrewAndante\SilverStripe\AsyncPublisher\Extension\AsyncPublisherExtension to any classes that you wish to enable Queued Publishing for:

---
name: async-publisher-config
---
My\SuperSlow\Page:
  extensions:
      - AndrewAndante\SilverStripe\AsyncPublisher\Extension\AsyncPublisherExtension

This will apply it by default to all instances of that class. You can make this a little more configurable using the shouldPreferAsync() method in an extension; for example, you might attach the below to UserDefinedForm:

<?php

namespace My\App\Extensions;

use SilverStripe\Core\Extension;

class ShouldPreferAsyncExtension extends Extension
{
    public function shouldPreferAsync()
    {
        return $this->owner->Fields()->count() >= 20;
    }
}

Which will default to Queueing if there are 20 or more fields on the User Defined form, but otherwise simply add the queueing actions to the "more options" menu

Features

• replaces the "Save" and "Publish" buttons with "Queue Save" and "Queue Publish"
• adds "Save immediately" and "Publish immediately" to the "More Options" menu (in case of emergency)
• prevents editing while jobs are in the queue to prevent weird race conditions

Screenshots

TODOS

• test better with Unpublish and Archive
• make it more configurable/extensible in general

Maintainers

• Andrew Paxley andrew.paxley@silverstripe.com