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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\system;
+
+use Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase;
+use Drupal\Core\CronInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
+
+/**
+ * Controller for Cron handling.
+ */
+class CronController extends ControllerBase {
+
+ /**
+ * The cron service.
+ *
+ * @var \Drupal\Core\CronInterface
+ */
+ protected $cron;
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a CronController object.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\CronInterface $cron
+ * The cron service.
+ */
+ public function __construct(CronInterface $cron) {
+ $this->cron = $cron;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritdoc}
+ */
+ public static function create(ContainerInterface $container) {
+ return new static($container->get('cron'));
+ }
+
+
+ /**
+ * Run Cron once.
+ *
+ * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
+ * A Symfony response object.
+ */
+ public function run() {
+ $this->cron->run();
+
+ // HTTP 204 is "No content", meaning "I did what you asked and we're done."
+ return new Response('', 204);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Run cron manually.
+ *
+ * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse
+ * A Symfony direct response object.
+ */
+ public function runManually() {
+ if ($this->cron->run()) {
+ drupal_set_message($this->t('Cron ran successfully.'));
+ }
+ else {
+ drupal_set_message($this->t('Cron run failed.'), 'error');
+ }
+
+ return $this->redirect('system.status');
+ }
+
+}