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While testing a Laravel app running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk I came across the situation where I wanted to be able to test how my app would handle interacting with the worker tier SQS daemon (sqsd) on my local machine. As sqsd is not open source there is currently no official way of doing this.

This project (inspired by others) is an attempt to replicate the functionality of sqsd in PHP for local testing purposes. Note that his library has no dependency on Laravel and can be used to test any kind of app.

Description

The Laravel queue worker operates by polling a queue for jobs and then runs them inline (as the queue worker is part of the application). As sqsd is completely separate from any application it works in a different way so that any application can be designed to work with it.

Sqsd works by polling a SQS queue for jobs and then POST's them to an endpoint specified in your Elastic Beanstalk worker environment settings (default is http://localhost/). If a job fails for any reason, then the job is sent to what is called a Dead Letter Queue for manual processing.

Another aspect of sqsd is that it can read a cron.yaml file in the root of your application which specifies periodic tasks that can be run on a schedule. Sqsd will send a job to the queue every time the schedule is triggered. These jobs will then be processed by sqsd like normal, but will be POSTed to the path specified in the cron.yaml with some extra headers.

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.5.0
• Composer

Install & Usage

1. Clone this repo
2. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the details (see below)
3. Run composer install
4. Run php ./bin/sqsd.phar work

To install as a composer dependency:

1. Run composer require gilbitron/sqsd
2. Run php ./vendor/bin/sqsd.phar work

Note: If your're running sqsd as a composer dependency you will need to set your environment variables via the command line (see below for more info).

Configuration

Configuration is done by either setting environment variables before running sqsd (e.g. export SQS_QUEUE_URL=https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789) or specifying them in .env.

Environment variables marked with a * are required for sqsd to work.

Building the Phar

To build Phar file first you need to install Box then run:

box build -v

Laravel Tips

If you're looking for a package that will make Laravel work with sqsd I recommend dusterio/laravel-aws-worker.

If you are using this to test a Laravel app, instead of configuring Supervisor to run the aritsan queue:work command, configure Supervisor to run the sqsd work command.

Contribute

So you want to help out? That's awesome. Here is how you can do it:

• Report a bug
• Ask for a feature
• Submit a pull request

If you are submitting a pull request please adhere to the existing coding standards used throughout the code and only submit 1 feature/fix per pull request. Pull requests containing multiple changes will be rejected.

Credits

Sqsd was created by Gilbert Pellegrom from Dev7studios. Released under the MIT license.