Magento Asynchronous Events

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A framework for reliably handling asynchronous events with Magento.

  • Asynchronous: The module uses RabbitMQ (or DB queues) to leverage asynchronous message delivery.
  • Flexible: Decoupling events and dispatches provide greater flexibility in message modelling.
  • Scalable: Handles back pressure and provides an asynchronous failover model automatically.

Installation

$ composer require mage-os/mageos-async-events

Install the module:

$ bin/magento setup:upgrade

Usage

Define an asynchronous event

Create a new async_events.xml under a module's etc/ directory.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:MageOS_AsyncEvents:etc/async_events.xsd"
>
    <async_event name="sales.order.created">
        <service class="Magento\Sales\Api\OrderRepositoryInterface" method="get"/>
    </async_event>
</config>

Create a Subscription

Tip

To view all available event sinks, check out Async Event Sinks

HTTP

curl --location --request POST 'https://test.mageos.dev/rest/V1/async_event' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "asyncEvent": {
        "event_name": "sales.order.created",
        "recipient_url": "https://example.com/order_created",
        "verification_token": "supersecret",
        "metadata": "http"
    }
}'

Amazon EventBridge

Requires the AWS Sinks package

curl --location --request POST 'https://test.mageos.dev/rest/V1/async_event' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "asyncEvent": {
        "event_name": "sales.order.created",
        "recipient_url": "arn:aws:events:ap-southeast-2:ACCOUNT_ID:rule/BUS_NAME",
        "verification_token": "supersecret",
        "metadata": "eventbridge"
    }
}'

Dispatch an asynchronous event

use \MageOS\AsyncEvents\Model\AsyncEventPublisher;

// ...

public function __construct(private readonly AsyncEventPublisher $asyncEventPublisher) {}

public function execute(Observer $observer): void
{
    /** @var Order $order */
    $order = $observer->getData('order');

    // arguments are the inputs required by the service class in the asynchronous
    // event definition in async_events.xml
    // e.g: Magento\Sales\Api\OrderRepositoryInterface::get
    $message = ['id' => $order->getId()];

    $this->asyncEventPublisher->publish('sales.order.created', $message);
}

Ensure the following consumers are running

bin/magento queue:consumer:start event.trigger.consumer
bin/magento queue:consumer:start event.retry.consumer

Features

Trace

All events are logged at the individual subscription level with a UUID.

All information from the first delivery attempt to the latest attempt is presented as a trace table. The event payload is also available to view for investigation purposes.

Event Trace Page

Retries

Events are automatically retried with quadratic back off. The default retry limit is 5. The maximum backoff is 60 seconds.

Important

RabbitMQ is required for retries with back off. If you are using DB queues then quadratic back off is not available, and you will have to implement your own \MageOS\AsyncEvents\Api\RetryManagementInterface

The quadratic backoff is calculated as min(60, pow($deathCount, 2));

AttemptBackoff
11 second
24 seconds
39 seconds
416 seconds
525 seconds

To change the default retry limit visit Admin > Stores > Settings > Configuration > Advanced > System > Async Events and update Maximum Deaths.

Retry Limit Config Page

Replays

An event can be replayed independent of its status. This is useful to debug or replay an event when all retries are exhausted.

Replays start a new chain of delivery attempts and will respect the same retry mechanism if they fail again.

Lucene Query Syntax

All events are indexed in Elasticsearch by default. This allows you to search through events including the event payload!

The module supports Lucene Query Syntax to query event data like attributes.

The following attributes are available across all asynchronous events.

log_id
uuid
event_name
success
created

The following attributes differ between asynchronous event types.

data

Examples

Assuming you have the following events configured

customer.created
customer.updated
customer.deleted
sales.order.created
sales.invoice.created
shipment.created
shipment.updated
shipment.deleted

You can query all customer events by using a wildcard like event_name: customer.* which matches the following events

customer.created
customer.updated
customer.deleted

You can query all created events like *.created which matches the following events

customer.created
sales.order.created
sales.invoice.created
shipment.created

You can further narrow down using the other available attributes such as status or uuid.

The following query returns all customer events which have failed. customer.* AND success: false

You can combine complex lucene queries to fetch event history and then export them via the admin grid as a csv if you wish.

Searching inside event payloads

Searching an event payload depends on what event you are searching on.

For the following example event payload, four properties are indexed as attributes. Therefore, you can query on data.customer_email, data.customer_firstname, data.customer_lastname and data.increment_id. Properties inside array at any level are not searchable.

{
    "data": {
        "customer_email": "roni_cost@example.com",
        "customer_firstname": "Veronica",
        "customer_lastname": "Costello",
        "increment_id": "CK00000001",
        "payment_additional_info": [
            {
                "key": "method_title",
                "value": "Check / Money order"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Search all events where the customer email is roni_cost@example.com

data.data.customer_email: roni_cost@example.com

Lucene Example 1

Search all events with the order increment id starting with CK and status success

data.data.increment_id: CK* AND success: true

Lucene Example 2

To turn off asynchronous event indexing visit Admin > Stores > Settings > Configuration > Advanced > System > Async Events and disable Enable Asynchronous Events Indexing.

Common Events

Mage-OS Common Asynchronous Events includes several default events for this module:

Event identifierDescription
customer.createdWhen a customer is created
customer.updatedWhen a customer is saved, except when it's new
customer.loginWhen a customer logs in
customer.address.createdWhen a customer address is created
customer.address.updatedWhen a customer address is saved, except when it's new
sales.order.createdWhen a new order is created
sales.order.updatedWhen the state of an existing order is changed
sales.order.paidWhen an order is fully paid
sales.order.shippedWhen an order is fully shipped
sales.order.holdedWhen an order is set "on hold"
sales.order.unholdedWhen an order is released from "on hold"
sales.order.cancelledWhen an order is cancelled
sales.shipment.createdWhen a new shipment is created
sales.invoice.createdWhen a new invoice is created
sales.invoice.paidWhen an invoice is paid
sales.creditmemo.createdWhen a new creditmemo is created
catalog.product.createdWhen a new product is created
catalog.product.updatedWhen an existing product is saved
cms.page.createdWhen a new CMS page is created
cms.page.updatedWhen an existing CMS page is saved
cms.block.createdWhen a new CMS block is created
cms.block.updatedWhen an existing CMS block is saved

These events work out of the box and can be used within subscribers. The module can also be used as a template on how to implement custom events.

Admin UI

Mage-OS Asynchronous Events Admin Ui provides a simple interface to create subscribers for this module in the Magento Admin area instead of via REST API. It only supports HTTP subscribers at the moment.

Admin UI Form

Support

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