[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51716: WP Cron - looses entries

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#51716: WP Cron - looses entries
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 Reporter:  Nate1         |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 Hello, I've been working with an external API for submitting orders from
 Woocommerce. To ensure the system is responsive I've been calling the
 scheduled events to save the orders to the API shortly after the order is
 submitted.

 I have noted that if items are saved at the same time. One of the events
 will not be saved.

 This appears to be caused by the cron task being build around a single
 database record (object), and in many cases would be completely fine, but
 is not reliable when being used in any great capacity.

 I understand my use-case isn't potentially what this was designed for, but
 there is room for improvement with the scheduled events to ensure
 reliability.

 I'm not 100% sure if I'm correct here, but it also appears that these
 tasks are also run when subsequent web requests are made, is there any
 current normalized interface for setting this up to run via an OS cron
 task or similar. To ensure other visitors requests aren't slowed down by
 checks (small) and events being activated (potentially slow).

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