.. index:: single: Messenger
Messenger provides a message bus with the ability to send messages and then handle them immediately in your application or send them through transports (e.g. queues) to be handled later. To learn more deeply about it, read the :doc:`Messenger component docs </components/messenger>`.
In applications using :ref:`Symfony Flex <symfony-flex>`, run this command to install messenger:
$ composer require symfony/messenger
Messenger centers around two different classes that you'll create: (1) a message class that holds data and (2) a handler(s) class that will be called when that message is dispatched. The handler class will read the message class and perform some task.
There are no specific requirements for a message class, except that it can be serialized:
// src/Message/SmsNotification.php namespace App\Message; class SmsNotification { private $content; public function __construct(string $content) { $this->content = $content; } public function getContent(): string { return $this->content; } }
A message handler is a PHP callable, the recommended way to create it is to
create a class that implements :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Handler\\MessageHandlerInterface`
and has an __invoke()
method that's type-hinted with the message class (or a
message interface):
// src/MessageHandler/SmsNotificationHandler.php namespace App\MessageHandler; use App\Message\SmsNotification; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageHandlerInterface; class SmsNotificationHandler implements MessageHandlerInterface { public function __invoke(SmsNotification $message) { // ... do some work - like sending an SMS message! } }
Thanks to :ref:`autoconfiguration <services-autoconfigure>` and the SmsNotification
type-hint, Symfony knows that this handler should be called when an SmsNotification
message is dispatched. Most of the time, this is all you need to do. But you can
also :ref:`manually configure message handlers <messenger-handler-config>`. To
see all the configured handlers, run:
$ php bin/console debug:messenger
You're ready! To dispatch the message (and call the handler), inject the
message_bus
service (via the MessageBusInterface
), like in a controller:
// src/Controller/DefaultController.php namespace App\Controller; use App\Message\SmsNotification; use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\MessageBusInterface; class DefaultController extends AbstractController { public function index(MessageBusInterface $bus) { // will cause the SmsNotificationHandler to be called $bus->dispatch(new SmsNotification('Look! I created a message!')); // or use the shortcut $this->dispatchMessage(new SmsNotification('Look! I created a message!')); // ... } }
By default, messages are handled as soon as they are dispatched. If you want to handle a message asynchronously, you can configure a transport. A transport is capable of sending messages (e.g. to a queueing system) and then :ref:`receiving them via a worker <messenger-worker>`. Messenger supports :ref:`multiple transports <messenger-transports-config>`.
Note
If you want to use a transport that's not supported, check out the Enqueue's transport, which supports things like Kafka and Google Pub/Sub.
A transport is registered using a "DSN". Thanks to Messenger's Flex recipe, your
.env
file already has a few examples.
# MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f/messages
# MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=doctrine://default
# MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=redis://localhost:6379/messages
Uncomment whichever transport you want (or set it in .env.local
). See
:ref:`messenger-transports-config` for more details.
Next, in config/packages/messenger.yaml
, let's define a transport called async
that uses this configuration:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%" # or expanded to configure more options #async: # dsn: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%" # options: [] .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async">%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%</framework:transport> <!-- or expanded to configure more options --> <framework:transport name="async" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%" > <option key="...">...</option> </framework:transport> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', // or expanded to configure more options 'async' => [ 'dsn' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', 'options' => [] ], ], ], ]);
Now that you have a transport configured, instead of handling a message immediately, you can configure them to be sent to a transport:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%" routing: # async is whatever name you gave your transport above 'App\Message\SmsNotification': async .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\SmsNotification"> <!-- async is whatever name you gave your transport above --> <framework:sender service="async"/> </framework:routing> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'routing' => [ // async is whatever name you gave your transport above 'App\Message\SmsNotification' => 'async', ], ], ]);
Thanks to this, the App\Message\SmsNotification
will be sent to the async
transport and its handler(s) will not be called immediately. Any messages not
matched under routing
will still be handled immediately.
You can also route classes by their parent class or interface. Or send messages to multiple transports:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: routing: # route all messages that extend this example base class or interface 'App\Message\AbstractAsyncMessage': async 'App\Message\AsyncMessageInterface': async 'My\Message\ToBeSentToTwoSenders': [async, audit] .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <!-- route all messages that extend this example base class or interface --> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\AbstractAsyncMessage"> <framework:sender service="async"/> </framework:routing> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\AsyncMessageInterface"> <framework:sender service="async"/> </framework:routing> <framework:routing message-class="My\Message\ToBeSentToTwoSenders"> <framework:sender service="async"/> <framework:sender service="audit"/> </framework:routing> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'routing' => [ // route all messages that extend this example base class or interface 'App\Message\AbstractAsyncMessage' => 'async', 'App\Message\AsyncMessageInterface' => 'async', 'My\Message\ToBeSentToTwoSenders' => ['async', 'audit'], ], ], ]);
If you need to pass a Doctrine entity in a message, it's better to pass the entity's
primary key (or whatever relevant information the handler actually needs, like email
,
etc) instead of the object:
// src/Message/NewUserWelcomeEmail.php namespace App\Message; class NewUserWelcomeEmail { private $userId; public function __construct(int $userId) { $this->userId = $userId; } public function getUserId(): int { return $this->userId; } }
Then, in your handler, you can query for a fresh object:
// src/MessageHandler/NewUserWelcomeEmailHandler.php namespace App\MessageHandler; use App\Message\NewUserWelcomeEmail; use App\Repository\UserRepository; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageHandlerInterface; class NewUserWelcomeEmailHandler implements MessageHandlerInterface { private $userRepository; public function __construct(UserRepository $userRepository) { $this->userRepository = $userRepository; } public function __invoke(NewUserWelcomeEmail $welcomeEmail) { $user = $this->userRepository->find($welcomeEmail->getUserId()); // ... send an email! } }
This guarantees the entity contains fresh data.
If a message doesn't :ref:`match any routing rules <messenger-routing>`, it won't
be sent to any transport and will be handled immediately. In some cases (like
when binding handlers to different transports),
it's easier or more flexible to handle this explicitly: by creating a sync
transport and "sending" messages there to be handled immediately:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: # ... other transports sync: 'sync://' routing: App\Message\SmsNotification: sync .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <!-- ... other transports --> <framework:transport name="sync" dsn="sync://"/> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\SmsNotification"> <framework:sender service="sync"/> </framework:routing> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ // ... other transports 'sync' => 'sync://', ], 'routing' => [ 'App\Message\SmsNotification' => 'sync', ], ], ]);
You can also create your own transport if you need to send or receive messages from something that is not supported. See :doc:`/messenger/custom-transport`.
Once your messages have been routed, in most cases, you'll need to "consume" them.
You can do this with the messenger:consume
command:
$ php bin/console messenger:consume async
# use -vv to see details about what's happening
$ php bin/console messenger:consume async -vv
The first argument is the receiver's name (or service id if you routed to a custom service). By default, the command will run forever: looking for new messages on your transport and handling them. This command is called your "worker".
On production, there are a few important things to think about:
- Use Supervisor to keep your worker(s) running
- You'll want one or more "workers" running at all times. To do that, use a process control system like :ref:`Supervisor <messenger-supervisor>`.
- Don't Let Workers Run Forever
- Some services (like Doctrine's EntityManager) will consume more memory
over time. So, instead of allowing your worker to run forever, use a flag
like
messenger:consume --limit=10
to tell your worker to only handle 10 messages before exiting (then Supervisor will create a new process). There are also other options like--memory-limit=128M
and--time-limit=3600
. - Restart Workers on Deploy
- Each time you deploy, you'll need to restart all your worker processes so
that they see the newly deployed code. To do this, run
messenger:stop-workers
on deploy. This will signal to each worker that it should finish the message it's currently handling and shut down gracefully. Then, Supervisor will create new worker processes. The command uses the :ref:`app <cache-configuration-with-frameworkbundle>` cache internally - so make sure this is configured to use an adapter you like.
Sometimes certain types of messages should have a higher priority and be handled before others. To make this possible, you can create multiple transports and route different messages to them. For example:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async_priority_high: dsn: '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%' options: # queue_name is specific to the doctrine transport queue_name: high # for AMQP send to a separate exchange then queue #exchange: # name: high #queues: # messages_high: ~ # or redis try "group" async_priority_low: dsn: '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%' options: queue_name: low routing: 'App\Message\SmsNotification': async_priority_low 'App\Message\NewUserWelcomeEmail': async_priority_high .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async_priority_high" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%"> <framework:options> <framework:queue> <framework:name>Queue</framework:name> </framework:queue> </framework:options> </framework:transport> <framework:transport name="async_priority_low" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%"> <option key="queue_name">low</option> </framework:transport> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\SmsNotification"> <framework:sender service="async_priority_low"/> </framework:routing> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\NewUserWelcomeEmail"> <framework:sender service="async_priority_high"/> </framework:routing> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_high' => [ 'dsn' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', 'options' => [ 'queue_name' => 'high', ], ], 'async_priority_low' => [ 'dsn' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', 'options' => [ 'queue_name' => 'low', ], ], ], 'routing' => [ 'App\Message\SmsNotification' => 'async_priority_low', 'App\Message\NewUserWelcomeEmail' => 'async_priority_high', ], ], ]);
You can then run individual workers for each transport or instruct one worker to handle messages in a priority order:
$ php bin/console messenger:consume async_priority_high async_priority_low
The worker will always first look for messages waiting on async_priority_high
. If
there are none, then it will consume messages from async_priority_low
.
Supervisor is a great tool to guarantee that your worker process(es) is
always running (even if it closes due to failure, hitting a message limit
or thanks to messenger:stop-workers
). You can install it on Ubuntu, for
example, via:
$ sudo apt-get install supervisor
Supervisor configuration files typically live in a /etc/supervisor/conf.d
directory. For example, you can create a new messenger-worker.conf
file
there to make sure that 2 instances of messenger:consume
are running at all
times:
;/etc/supervisor/conf.d/messenger-worker.conf
[program:messenger-consume]
command=php /path/to/your/app/bin/console messenger:consume async --time-limit=3600
user=ubuntu
numprocs=2
startsecs=0
autostart=true
autorestart=true
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
Change the async
argument to use the name of your transport (or transports)
and user
to the Unix user on your server. Next, tell Supervisor to read your
config and start your workers:
$ sudo supervisorctl reread
$ sudo supervisorctl update
$ sudo supervisorctl start messenger-consume:*
See the Supervisor docs for more details.
If an exception is thrown while consuming a message from a transport it will automatically be re-sent to the transport to be tried again. By default, a message will be retried 3 times before being discarded or :ref:`sent to the failure transport <messenger-failure-transport>`. Each retry will also be delayed, in case the failure was due to a temporary issue. All of this is configurable for each transport:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async_priority_high: dsn: '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%' # default configuration retry_strategy: max_retries: 3 # milliseconds delay delay: 1000 # causes the delay to be higher before each retry # e.g. 1 second delay, 2 seconds, 4 seconds multiplier: 2 max_delay: 0 # override all of this with a service that # implements Symfony\Component\Messenger\Retry\RetryStrategyInterface # service: null .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async_priority_high" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%?queue_name=high_priority"> <framework:retry-strategy max-retries="3" delay="1000" multiplier="2" max-delay="0"/> </framework:transport> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_high' => [ 'dsn' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', // default configuration 'retry_strategy' => [ 'max_retries' => 3, // milliseconds delay 'delay' => 1000, // causes the delay to be higher before each retry // e.g. 1 second delay, 2 seconds, 4 seconds 'multiplier' => 2, 'max_delay' => 0, // override all of this with a service that // implements Symfony\Component\Messenger\Retry\RetryStrategyInterface // 'service' => null, ], ], ], ], ]);
Sometimes handling a message might fail in a way that you know is permanent and should not be retried. If you throw :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Exception\\UnrecoverableMessageHandlingException`, the message will not be retried.
If a message fails it is retried multiple times (max_retries
) and then will
be discarded. To avoid this happening, you can instead configure a failure_transport
:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: # after retrying, messages will be sent to the "failed" transport failure_transport: failed transports: # ... other transports failed: 'doctrine://default?queue_name=failed' .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <!-- after retrying, messages will be sent to the "failed" transport --> <framework:messenger failure-transport="failed"> <!-- ... other transports --> <framework:transport name="failed" dsn="doctrine://default?queue_name=failed"/> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ // after retrying, messages will be sent to the "failed" transport 'failure_transport' => 'failed', 'transports' => [ // ... other transports 'failed' => [ 'dsn' => 'doctrine://default?queue_name=failed', ], ], ], ]);
In this example, if handling a message fails 3 times (default max_retries
),
it will then be sent to the failed
transport. While you can use
messenger:consume failed
to consume this like a normal transport, you'll
usually want to manually view the messages in the failure transport and choose
to retry them:
# see all messages in the failure transport
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:show
# see details about a specific failure
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:show 20 -vv
# view and retry messages one-by-one
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:retry -vv
# retry specific messages
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:retry 20 30 --force
# remove a message without retrying it
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:remove 20
# remove messages without retrying them and show each message before removing it
$ php bin/console messenger:failed:remove 20 30 --show-messages
.. versionadded:: 5.1 The ``--show-messages`` option was introduced in Symfony 5.1.
If the message fails again, it will be re-sent back to the failure transport due to the normal :ref:`retry rules <messenger-retries-failures>`. Once the max retry has been hit, the message will be discarded permanently.
Messenger supports a number of different transport types, each with their own options.
.. versionadded:: 5.1 Starting from Symfony 5.1, the AMQP transport has moved to a separate package. Install it by running: .. code-block:: terminal $ composer require symfony/amqp-messenger
The amqp
transport configuration looks like this:
# .env
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f/messages
To use Symfony's built-in AMQP transport, you need the AMQP PHP extension.
Note
By default, the transport will automatically create any exchanges, queues and binding keys that are needed. That can be disabled, but some functionality may not work correctly (like delayed queues).
The transport has a number of other options, including ways to configure the exchange, queues binding keys and more. See the documentation on :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Bridge\\Amqp\\Transport\\Connection`.
You can also configure AMQP-specific settings on your message by adding :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Bridge\\Amqp\\Transport\\AmqpStamp` to your Envelope:
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Bridge\Amqp\Transport\AmqpStamp; // ... $attributes = []; $bus->dispatch(new SmsNotification(), [ new AmqpStamp('custom-routing-key', AMQP_NOPARAM, $attributes) ]);
Caution!
The consumers do not show up in an admin panel as this transport does not rely on
\AmqpQueue::consume()
which is blocking. Having a blocking receiver makes
the --time-limit/--memory-limit
options of the messenger:consume
command as well as
the messenger:stop-workers
command inefficient, as they all rely on the fact that
the receiver returns immediately no matter if it finds a message or not. The consume
worker is responsible for iterating until it receives a message to handle and/or until one
of the stop conditions is reached. Thus, the worker's stop logic cannot be reached if it
is stuck in a blocking call.
.. versionadded:: 5.1 Starting from Symfony 5.1, the Doctrine transport has moved to a separate package. Install it by running: .. code-block:: terminal $ composer require symfony/doctrine-messenger
The Doctrine transport can be used to store messages in a database table.
# .env
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=doctrine://default
The format is doctrine://<connection_name>
, in case you have multiple connections
and want to use one other than the "default". The transport will automatically create
a table named messenger_messages
.
.. versionadded:: 5.1 The ability to automatically generate a migration for the ``messenger_messages`` table was introduced in Symfony 5.1 and DoctrineBundle 2.1.
Or, to create the table yourself, set the auto_setup
option to false
and
:ref:`generate a migration <doctrine-creating-the-database-tables-schema>`.
The transport has a number of options:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async_priority_high: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%?queue_name=high_priority" async_normal: dsn: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%" options: queue_name: normal_priority .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async_priority_high" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%?queue_name=high_priority"/> <framework:transport name="async_priority_low" dsn="%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%"> <framework:options> <framework:queue> <framework:name>normal_priority</framework:name> </framework:queue> </framework:options> </framework:transport> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_high' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%?queue_name=high_priority', 'async_priority_low' => [ 'dsn' => '%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%', 'options' => [ 'queue_name' => 'normal_priority' ] ], ], ], ]);
Options defined under options
take precedence over ones defined in the DSN.
Option | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
table_name | Name of the table | messenger_messages |
queue_name | Name of the queue (a column in the table, to use one table for multiple transports) | default |
redeliver_timeout | Timeout before retrying a message that's in the queue but in the "handling" state (if a worker died for some reason, this will occur, eventually you should retry the message) - in seconds. | 3600 |
auto_setup | Whether the table should be created automatically during send / get. | true |
.. versionadded:: 5.1 Starting from Symfony 5.1, the Redis transport has moved to a separate package. Install it by running: .. code-block:: terminal $ composer require symfony/redis-messenger
The Redis transport uses streams to queue messages.
# .env
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=redis://localhost:6379/messages
# Full DSN Example
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=redis://password@localhost:6379/messages/symfony/consumer?auto_setup=true&serializer=1&stream_max_entries=0&dbindex=0
# Unix Socket Example
MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=redis:///var/run/redis.sock
.. versionadded:: 5.1 The Unix socket DSN was introduced in Symfony 5.1.
To use the Redis transport, you will need the Redis PHP extension (>=4.3) and a running Redis server (^5.0).
A number of options can be configured via the DSN or via the options
key
under the transport in messenger.yaml
:
Option | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
stream | The Redis stream name | messages |
group | The Redis consumer group name | symfony |
consumer | Consumer name used in Redis | consumer |
auto_setup | Create the Redis group automatically? | true |
auth | The Redis password | |
serializer | How to serialize the final payload
in Redis (the
Redis::OPT_SERIALIZER option) |
Redis::SERIALIZER_PHP |
stream_max_entries | The maximum number of entries which the stream will be trimmed to. Set it to a large enough number to avoid losing pending messages | 0 (which means "no trimming") |
tls | Enable TLS support for the connection | false |
The in-memory
transport does not actually deliver messages. Instead, it
holds them in memory during the request, which can be useful for testing.
For example, if you have an async_priority_normal
transport, you could
override it in the test
environment to use this transport:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/test/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async_priority_normal: 'in-memory://' .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/test/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async_priority_normal" dsn="in-memory://"/> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/test/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_normal' => [ 'dsn' => 'in-memory://', ], ], ], ]);
Then, while testing, messages will not be delivered to the real transport. Even better, in a test, you can check that exactly one message was sent during a request:
// tests/DefaultControllerTest.php namespace App\Tests; use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Transport\InMemoryTransport; class DefaultControllerTest extends WebTestCase { public function testSomething() { $client = static::createClient(); // ... $this->assertSame(200, $client->getResponse()->getStatusCode()); /* @var InMemoryTransport $transport */ $transport = self::$container->get('messenger.transport.async_priority_normal'); $this->assertCount(1, $transport->getSent()); } }
Note
All in-memory
transports will be reset automatically after each test in
test classes extending
:class:`Symfony\\Bundle\\FrameworkBundle\\Test\\KernelTestCase`
or :class:`Symfony\\Bundle\\FrameworkBundle\\Test\\WebTestCase`.
When messages are sent to (and received from) a transport, they're serialized
using PHP's native serialize()
& unserialize()
functions. You can change
this globally (or for each transport) to a service that implements
:class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Transport\\Serialization\\SerializerInterface`:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: serializer: default_serializer: messenger.transport.symfony_serializer symfony_serializer: format: json context: { } transports: async_priority_normal: dsn: # ... serializer: messenger.transport.symfony_serializer .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:serializer default-serializer="messenger.transport.symfony_serializer"> <framework:symfony-serializer format="json"> <framework:context/> </framework:symfony-serializer> </framework:serializer> <framework:transport name="async_priority_normal" dsn="..." serializer="messenger.transport.symfony_serializer"/> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'serializer' => [ 'default_serializer' => 'messenger.transport.symfony_serializer', 'symfony_serializer' => [ 'format' => 'json', 'context' => [], ], ], 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_normal' => [ 'dsn' => // ... 'serializer' => 'messenger.transport.symfony_serializer', ], ], ], ]);
The messenger.transport.symfony_serializer
is a built-in service that uses
the :doc:`Serializer component </serializer>` and can be configured in a few ways.
If you do choose to use the Symfony serializer, you can control the context
on a case-by-case basis via the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Stamp\\SerializerStamp`
(see Envelopes & Stamps).
Tip
When sending/receiving messages to/from another application, you may need more control over the serialization process. Using a custom serializer provides that control. See SymfonyCasts' message serializer tutorial for details.
Symfony will normally :ref:`find and register your handler automatically <messenger-handler>`.
But, you can also configure a handler manually - and pass it some extra config -
by tagging the handler service with messenger.message_handler
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/services.yaml services: App\MessageHandler\SmsNotificationHandler: tags: [messenger.message_handler] # or configure with options tags: - name: messenger.message_handler # only needed if can't be guessed by type-hint handles: App\Message\SmsNotification .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/services.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd"> <services> <service id="App\MessageHandler\SmsNotificationHandler"> <!-- handles is only needed if it can't be guessed by type-hint --> <tag name="messenger.message_handler" handles="App\Message\SmsNotification"/> </service> </services> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/services.php use App\Message\SmsNotification; use App\MessageHandler\SmsNotificationHandler; $container->register(SmsNotificationHandler::class) ->addTag('messenger.message_handler', [ // only needed if can't be guessed by type-hint 'handles' => SmsNotification::class, ]);
Possible options to configure with tags are:
bus
from_transport
handles
method
priority
A handler class can handle multiple messages or configure itself by implementing :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Handler\\MessageSubscriberInterface`:
// src/MessageHandler/SmsNotificationHandler.php namespace App\MessageHandler; use App\Message\OtherSmsNotification; use App\Message\SmsNotification; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageSubscriberInterface; class SmsNotificationHandler implements MessageSubscriberInterface { public function __invoke(SmsNotification $message) { // ... } public function handleOtherSmsNotification(OtherSmsNotification $message) { // ... } public static function getHandledMessages(): iterable { // handle this message on __invoke yield SmsNotification::class; // also handle this message on handleOtherSmsNotification yield OtherSmsNotification::class => [ 'method' => 'handleOtherSmsNotification', //'priority' => 0, //'bus' => 'messenger.bus.default', ]; } }
Each message can have multiple handlers, and when a message is consumed all of its handlers are called. But you can also configure a handler to only be called when it's received from a specific transport. This allows you to have a single message where each handler is called by a different "worker" that's consuming a different transport.
Suppose you have an UploadedImage
message with two handlers:
ThumbnailUploadedImageHandler
: you want this to be handled by a transport calledimage_transport
NotifyAboutNewUploadedImageHandler
: you want this to be handled by a transport calledasync_priority_normal
To do this, add the from_transport
option to each handler. For example:
// src/MessageHandler/ThumbnailUploadedImageHandler.php namespace App\MessageHandler; use App\Message\UploadedImage; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Handler\MessageSubscriberInterface; class ThumbnailUploadedImageHandler implements MessageSubscriberInterface { public function __invoke(UploadedImage $uploadedImage) { // do some thumbnailing } public static function getHandledMessages(): iterable { yield UploadedImage::class => [ 'from_transport' => 'image_transport', ]; } }
And similarly:
// src/MessageHandler/NotifyAboutNewUploadedImageHandler.php // ... class NotifyAboutNewUploadedImageHandler implements MessageSubscriberInterface { // ... public static function getHandledMessages(): iterable { yield UploadedImage::class => [ 'from_transport' => 'async_priority_normal', ]; } }
Then, make sure to "route" your message to both transports:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: transports: async_priority_normal: # ... image_transport: # ... routing: # ... 'App\Message\UploadedImage': [image_transport, async_priority_normal] .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:transport name="async_priority_normal" dsn="..."/> <framework:transport name="image_transport" dsn="..."/> <framework:routing message-class="App\Message\UploadedImage"> <framework:sender service="image_transport"/> <framework:sender service="async_priority_normal"/> </framework:routing> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'transports' => [ 'async_priority_normal' => '...', 'image_transport' => '...', ], 'routing' => [ 'App\Message\UploadedImage' => ['image_transport', 'async_priority_normal'] ] ], ]);
That's it! You can now consume each transport:
# will only call ThumbnailUploadedImageHandler when handling the message
$ php bin/console messenger:consume image_transport -vv
$ php bin/console messenger:consume async_priority_normal -vv
Caution!
If a handler does not have from_transport
config, it will be executed
on every transport that the message is received from.
A message can be any PHP object. Sometimes, you may need to configure something extra about the message - like the way it should be handled inside AMQP or adding a delay before the message should be handled. You can do that by adding a "stamp" to your message:
use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Envelope; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\MessageBusInterface; use Symfony\Component\Messenger\Stamp\DelayStamp; public function index(MessageBusInterface $bus) { $bus->dispatch(new SmsNotification('...'), [ // wait 5 seconds before processing new DelayStamp(5000) ]); // or explicitly create an Envelope $bus->dispatch(new Envelope(new SmsNotification('...'), [ new DelayStamp(5000) ])); // ... }
Internally, each message is wrapped in an Envelope
, which holds the message
and stamps. You can create this manually or allow the message bus to do it. There
are a variety of different stamps for different purposes and they're used internally
to track information about a message - like the message bus that's handling it
or if it's being retried after failure.
What happens when you dispatch a message to a message bus depends on its collection of middleware and their order. By default, the middleware configured for each bus looks like this:
add_bus_name_stamp_middleware
- adds a stamp to record which bus this message was dispatched into;dispatch_after_current_bus
- see :doc:`/messenger/message-recorder`;failed_message_processing_middleware
- processes messages that are being retried via the :ref:`failure transport <messenger-failure-transport>` to make them properly function as if they were being received from their original transport;- Your own collection of middleware;
send_message
- if routing is configured for the transport, this sends messages to that transport and stops the middleware chain;handle_message
- calls the message handler(s) for the given message.
Note
These middleware names are actually shortcut names. The real service ids
are prefixed with messenger.middleware.
(e.g. messenger.middleware.handle_message
).
The middleware are executed when the message is dispatched but also again when a message is received via the worker (for messages that were sent to a transport to be handled asynchronously). Keep this in mind if you create your own middleware.
You can add your own middleware to this list, or completely disable the default middleware and only include your own:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: buses: messenger.bus.default: middleware: # service ids that implement Symfony\Component\Messenger\Middleware\MiddlewareInterface - 'App\Middleware\MyMiddleware' - 'App\Middleware\AnotherMiddleware' #default_middleware: false .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:middleware id="App\Middleware\MyMiddleware"/> <framework:middleware id="App\Middleware\AnotherMiddleware"/> <framework:bus name="messenger.bus.default" default-middleware="false"/> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'buses' => [ 'messenger.bus.default' => [ 'middleware' => [ 'App\Middleware\MyMiddleware', 'App\Middleware\AnotherMiddleware', ], 'default_middleware' => false, ], ], ], ]);
Note
If a middleware service is abstract, a different instance of the service will be created per bus.
.. versionadded:: 1.11 The following Doctrine middleware were introduced in DoctrineBundle 1.11.
If you use Doctrine in your app, a number of optional middleware exist that you may want to use:
.. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: yaml # config/packages/messenger.yaml framework: messenger: buses: command_bus: middleware: # each time a message is handled, the Doctrine connection # is "pinged" and reconnected if it's closed. Useful # if your workers run for a long time and the database # connection is sometimes lost - doctrine_ping_connection # After handling, the Doctrine connection is closed, # which can free up database connections in a worker, # instead of keeping them open forever - doctrine_close_connection # wraps all handlers in a single Doctrine transaction # handlers do not need to call flush() and an error # in any handler will cause a rollback - doctrine_transaction # or pass a different entity manager to any #- doctrine_transaction: ['custom'] .. code-block:: xml <!-- config/packages/messenger.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:framework="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services https://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd http://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony https://symfony.com/schema/dic/symfony/symfony-1.0.xsd"> <framework:config> <framework:messenger> <framework:bus name="command_bus"> <framework:middleware id="doctrine_transaction"/> <framework:middleware id="doctrine_ping_connection"/> <framework:middleware id="doctrine_close_connection"/> <!-- or pass a different entity manager to any --> <!-- <framework:middleware id="doctrine_transaction"> <framework:argument>custom</framework:argument> </framework:middleware> --> </framework:bus> </framework:messenger> </framework:config> </container> .. code-block:: php // config/packages/messenger.php $container->loadFromExtension('framework', [ 'messenger' => [ 'buses' => [ 'command_bus' => [ 'middleware' => [ 'doctrine_transaction', 'doctrine_ping_connection', 'doctrine_close_connection', // Using another entity manager ['id' => 'doctrine_transaction', 'arguments' => ['custom']], ], ], ], ], ]);
In addition to middleware, Messenger also dispatches several events. You can :doc:`create an event listener </event_dispatcher>` to hook into various parts of the process. For each, the event class is the event name:
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerStartedEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerMessageReceivedEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\SendMessageToTransportsEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerMessageFailedEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerMessageHandledEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerRunningEvent`
- :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Messenger\\Event\\WorkerStoppedEvent`
Messenger gives you a single message bus service by default. But, you can configure as many as you want, creating "command", "query" or "event" buses and controlling their middleware. See :doc:`/messenger/multiple_buses`.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :glob: /messenger/*