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• How to create a scheduled task – Introducing the Piwik Platform

  28 août 2014, par Thomas Steur — Development

  This is the next post of our blog series where we introduce the capabilities of the Piwik platform (our previous post was How to create a custom theme in Piwik). This time you’ll learn how to execute scheduled tasks in the background, for instance sending a daily email. For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of PHP.

  What can you do with scheduled tasks ?

  Scheduled tasks let you execute tasks regularly (hourly, weekly, …). For instance you can :

  • create and send custom reports or summaries
  • sync users and websites with other systems
  • clear any caches
  • import third-party data into Piwik
  • monitor your Piwik instance
  • execute any other task you can think of

  Getting started

  In this series of posts, we assume that you have already set up your development environment. If not, visit the Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find the tutorial Setting up Piwik.

  To summarize the things you have to do to get setup :

  • Install Piwik (for instance via git).
  • Activate the developer mode : ./console development:enable --full.
  • Generate a plugin : ./console generate:plugin --name="MyTasksPlugin". There should now be a folder plugins/MyTasksPlugin.
  • And activate the created plugin under Settings => Plugins.

  Let’s start creating a scheduled task

  We start by using the Piwik Console to create a tasks template :

  ./console generate:scheduledtask

  The command will ask you to enter the name of the plugin the task should belong to. I will simply use the above generated plugin name “MyTasksPlugin”. There should now be a file plugins/MyTasksPlugin/Tasks.php which contains some examples to get you started easily :

  class Tasks extends \Piwik\Plugin\Tasks
  
  {
  
      public function schedule()
  
      {
  
          $this->hourly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every hour
  
          $this->daily('myTask');   // method will be executed once every day
  
          $this->weekly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every week
  
          $this->monthly('myTask'); // method will be executed once every month
  
  
  
          // pass a parameter to the task
  
          $this->weekly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring');
  
  
  
          // specify a different priority
  
          $this->monthly('myTask', null, self::LOWEST_PRIORITY);
  
          $this->monthly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring', self::HIGH_PRIORITY);
  
      }
  
  
  
      public function myTask()
  
      {
  
          // do something
  
      }
  
  
  
      public function myTaskWithParam($param)
  
      {
  
          // do something
  
      }
  
  }

  A simple example

  As you can see in the generated template you can execute tasks hourly, daily, weekly and monthly by registering a method which represents the actual task :

  public function schedule()
  
  {
  
      // register method remindMeToLogIn to be executed once every day
  
      $this->daily('remindMeToLogIn');  
  
  }
  
  
  
  public function remindMeToLogIn()
  
  {
  
      $mail = new \Piwik\Mail();
  
      $mail->addTo('me@example.com');
  
      $mail->setSubject('Check stats');
  
      $mail->setBodyText('Log into your Piwik instance and check your stats!');
  
      $mail->send();
  
  }

  This example sends you an email once a day to remind you to log into your Piwik daily. The Piwik platform makes sure to execute the method remindMeToLogIn exactly once every day.

  How to pass a parameter to a task

  Sometimes you want to pass a parameter to a task method. This is useful if you want to register for instance one task for each user or for each website. You can achieve this by specifying a second parameter when registering the method to execute.

  public function schedule()
  
  {
  
      foreach (\Piwik\Site::getSites() as $site) {
  
          // create one task for each site and pass the URL of each site to the task
  
          $this->hourly('pingSite', $site['main_url']); 
  
      }
  
  }
  
  
  
  public function pingSite($siteMainUrl)
  
  {
  
      file_get_contents($siteMainUrl);
  
  }

  How to test scheduled tasks

  After you have created your task you are surely wondering how to test it. First, you should write a unit or integration test which we will cover in one of our future blog posts. Just one hint : You can use the command ./console generate:test to create a test. To manually execute all scheduled tasks you can execute the API method CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks by opening the following URL in your browser :

  http://piwik.example.com/index.php?module=API&method=CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks&token_auth=YOUR_API_TOKEN

  Don’t forget to replace the domain and the token_auth URL parameter.

  There is one problem with executing the scheduled tasks : The platform makes sure they will be executed only once an hour, a day, etc. This means you can’t simply reload the URL and test the method again and again as you would have to wait for the next hour or day. The proper solution is to set the constant DEBUG_FORCE_SCHEDULED_TASKS to true within the file Core/TaskScheduler.php. Don’t forget to set it back to false again once you have finished testing it.

  Starting from Piwik 2.6.0 you can alternatively execute the following command :

  ./console core:run-scheduled-tasks --force --token-auth=YOUR_TOKEN_AUTH

  The option “–force” will make sure to execute even tasks that are not due to run at this time. So you won’t have to modify any files.

  Which tasks are registered and when is the next execution time of my task ?

  The TasksTimetable plugin from the Marketplace can answer this question for you. Simply install and activate the plugin with one click by going to Settings => Marketplace => Get new functionality. It’ll add a new admin menu item under Settings named Scheduled Tasks.

  Publishing your Plugin on the Marketplace

  In case you want to share your task(s) with other Piwik users you can do this by pushing your plugin to a public GitHub repository and creating a tag. Easy as that. Read more about how to distribute a plugin.

  Advanced features

  Isn’t it easy to create scheduled tasks ? We never even created a file ! Of course, based on our API design principle “The complexity of our API should never exceed the complexity of your use case.” you can accomplish more if you want. For instance, you can define priorities, you can directly register methods from different objects and classes, you can specify at which time of a day a task should run and more.

  Would you like to know more about tasks ? Go to our Tasks class reference in the Piwik Developer Zone.

  If you have any feedback regarding our APIs or our guides in the Developer Zone feel free to send it to us.

• GStreamer x264enc not found

  5 avril 2017, par Dominik Schreiber

  I installed GStreamer-0.10 and all modules (base, good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg) according to these instructions (browse through by clicking prev/next) :
  http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/gst-plugins-ugly.html

  Everything seemed to have worked just fine but when I want to execute my pipeline I got this error :

  glib.GError: no element "x264enc"

  Apparently the module was not installed :

  gst-inspect x264enc
  
  No such element or plugin 'x264enc'

  After that I installed the codec by executing :

  sudo apt-get install x264

  This did not work either. So I installed the latest build manually :
  http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

  After a successful installation of x264 I ran ./configure on the gstreamer-0.10 ugly modules once again and found out about this :

  configure: *** checking feature: x264 plug-in ***
  
  configure: *** for plug-ins: x264 ***
  
  checking for X264... no
  
  configure: No package 'x264' found
  
  configure: *** These plugins will not be built: x264
  
  configure: creating ./config.status

  A check if x264 is available seems to get fullfilled :

  which x264
  
  /usr/local/bin/x264

  I’m using ubuntu server 12.04 LTS. Any ideas what I have to do to compile this module properly ? Thanks !

• Revision e606cac046 : Change meaning of cpi->sf.first_step and rename. Renamed cpi->sf.first_step to

  24 juin 2013, par Paul Wilkins

  Changed Paths :
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_mbgraph.c

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_mcomp.c

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_mcomp.h

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_onyx_if.c

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_onyx_int.h

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_temporal_filter.c

  
  
  Change meaning of cpi->sf.first_step and rename.

  Renamed cpi->sf.first_step to cpi->sf.reduce_first_step_size
  and changed its meaning such that it is a delta applied to
  reduce the default first step size (>> x) in the motion search
  rather than an absolute value.

  The default first step size is already changed according to the image
  dimensions (smaller for smaller images). cpi->sf.reduce_first_step_size
  now applies a further correction from the default.

  Change-Id : Ia94e08bc24c67b604831f980909af7e982fcd16d