Create a queue with a Controller in Drupal8
Queues are particularly important when we need to stash some tasks for later processing. To do so, we are going to put some tasks or data in a queue (create the queue) and later we will process those tasks with a QueueWorker plugin (process the queue), usually triggered by cron.
There are several ways to create a queue:
- With a form class
- With a controller class
- With a hook_cron() function
To process the queue, we also have different options:
- As a cron process with a QueueWorker plugin
- As a batch process also with QueueWorker plugin but extending a base plugin
- As a batch process claiming each item of the queue in a service or in a controller
