How to Run Laravel Scheduler on Google Cloud - laravel

Question

I am trying to run Laravel Scheduler in Google Cloud.
In my command, I have this
<?php
namespace App\Console\Commands;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use App\User;
use Carbon\Carbon;
class ChangeRole extends Command
{
/**
* The name and signature of the console command.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $signature = 'command:update';
/**
* The console command description.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $description = 'This Changes Stuffs';
/**
* Create a new command instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
/**
* Execute the console command.
*
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle()
{
//
$users = User::where('trialExpires', '<=', Carbon::now())->get();
foreach ($users as $user) {
$user->type= 'subscriber';
$user->save();
}
}
}
I have done this in my Kernel
protected $commands = [
//
'App\Console\Commands\ChangeRole',
];
/**
* Define the application's command schedule.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule
* #return void
*/
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
$schedule->command('command:update')
->daily();
}
In my cron.yaml file
cron:
- description: "daily job"
url: '* * * * * cd /project_id && php artisan command:update >> /dev/null 2>&1'
schedule: every 24 hours
retry_parameters:
min_backoff_seconds: 2.5
max_doublings: 5
timezone: Europe/Madrid
When I ran gcloud app deploy cron.yaml
I got this error
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) An error occurred while parsing file: [C:\xampp1\newlibri\cron.yaml]
Unable to assign value '* * * * * cd /starlit-advice-260914 && php artisan command:update >> /dev/null 2>&1' to attribute 'url':
Value '* * * * * cd /starlit-advice-260914 && php artisan command:update >> /dev/null 2>&1' for url does not match expression '^(?:^/.*$)$'
in "C:\xampp1\newlibri\cron.yaml", line 3, column 8
I don't know what I did wrong.
When I run PHP artisan command:update. The scheduler work just fine. But I am unable to replicate on Google Cloud

Answer 1

I have been able to fix the error.
I have to set the URL to a get request in my application.
cron:
- description: "daily summary job"
url: /api/checksub
schedule: every 24 hours
retry_parameters:
min_backoff_seconds: 2.5
max_doublings: 5
timezone: Europe/Madrid
In my controller, I have this
public function checksub() {
$users = User::where('trialExpires', '<=', Carbon::now())->update(['role'=> 'subscriber']);
));
}
It doesn't need to setup Laravel Scheduler. Just call the get result of the URL

Answer 2

You might want to use the default implementation for these scheduler tasks. Basically what you do is setup a CRON task which runs the scheduler function every minute, and let the PHP code decide whether to run particular tasks.
* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
This will run your app\Console\Kernel.php::schedule() function every minute, in which you can then define your tasks like:
// Example function which removes users older than a year.
$schedule->call(function () {
User::query()
->where('created_at', '<', Carbon::now()->subYear())
->delete();
})->hourly();
See https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/scheduling