PHP changes not showing up until Composer Update

I’m working on a cronjob that will delete products by last date updated.

I’m seeing very strange Magento 2 behavior – the PHP file changes are not showing up until I update the repository and then run composer update.

The store is in Development mode. Running via Docker-compose.

During development on other plugins as soon as I do:

rm -rf var/generation var/view_preprocessed/ pub/static/frontend generated/code
php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:di:compile
php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento cache:flush

The file changes show up and sometimes even without these commands.

But, with this plugin the changes do not show up until I fully push changes to repository and then run composer update with all the other commands.

Is there some kind of caching for cron job classes that I don’t know about?

FOLDER STRUCTURE

Here is my folder structure:

srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsCronDeleteOldProducts.php
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsetcadminhtmlsystem.xml
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsetcconfig.xml
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsetccrontab.xml
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsetcmodule.xml
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductscomposer.json
srcvendorcompanydeleteoldproductsregistration.php

The DeleteOldProducts.php is being used by the cron job, but uses an old version of it. I try to make changes to it, re-run the commands mentioned above, but cronjob still uses old version of the file. This is not normal.

Here is the php file:

<?php

namespace CompanyDeleteOldProductsCron;

use MagentoCatalogApiProductRepositoryInterface;
use MagentoCatalogModelResourceModelProductCollectionFactory;

class DeleteOldProducts
{
    /**
     * @var ProductRepositoryInterface
     */
    protected $_productRepositoryInterface;

    /**
     * @var CollectionFactory
     */
    protected $_productCollectionFactory;

    public function __construct(
        ProductRepositoryInterface $_productRepositoryInterface,
        CollectionFactory $_productCollectionFactory
   ) {
       $this->_productRepositoryInterface = $_productRepositoryInterface;
       $this->_productCollectionFactory = $_productCollectionFactory;
   }

    public function execute()
    {
        $writer = new Zend_Log_Writer_Stream(BP . '/var/log/DELETE-OLD-PRODUCTS.log');
        $logger = new Zend_Log();
        $logger->addWriter($writer);
        $logger->info('---DELETING IS HAPPENING---');

        $collection = $this->_productCollectionFactory->create();
        $collection->addAttributeToSelect('*');
        $collection->setPageSize(10);

        $logger->info("COLLECTION?11111111");

        foreach($collection as $product)
        {
            $logger->info('PRODUCT ID' . $product->getId());
        }

        $logger->info("COLLECTION?222222222");

        $logger->info('---DELETING IS HAPPENING---');
        $logger->info('                           ');
        $logger->info('                           ');
   
        return $this;

    }
}

Why is this happening?

Answer

I found the issue – I had naming conflicts between the the plugin I was developing and the one in the composer

One was “deleteoldproducts” and the one in composer was “module-deleteoldproducts”.

Should have deleted the original folder after I pushed it to repository.