How to create Queue woker in Drupal 8

by Vamsi
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Aug 10, 2016 0 Comments

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Drupal 8
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The queue API allows placing items in a queue and processing them later. If you have a task that must be done regularly and it takes more time to complete then Cron queue might be the better solution. 

In Drupal 8, hook_cron_queue_info() has been replaced by QueueWorker Plugin. Define the queue worker by creating QueueWorker folder inside Plugin folder. In the below example, I create a form for sending the email. Emails will be added to the queue on submitting the form. On cron run emails will be dequeued.  

src/Plugin/QueueWorker:

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