Timers

Laravel Workflow provides the ability to suspend the execution of a workflow and resume at a later time. This can be useful for implementing delays, retry logic, or timeouts.

To use timers, you can use the WorkflowStub::timer($seconds) method within your workflow. This method returns a Promise that will be resolved after the specified number of seconds have passed.

Here is an example of using a timer:

use Workflow\WorkflowStub;
use Workflow\Workflow;

class MyWorkflow extends Workflow
{
    public function execute()
    {
        // Wait for 5 seconds before continuing
        yield WorkflowStub::timer(5);

        // Do something after the timer has finished
        return 'Hello world';
    }
}

You may also specify the time to wait as a string e.g. '5 seconds' or '30 minutes'.

Important: When using timers, you should not use the Carbon::now() method to get the current time. Instead, you should use the WorkflowStub::now() method, which will return the current time as seen by the workflow system. This is important because the actual time may not match the time as seen by your application.