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Scenario:

I'm running some script that changed some attribute values for some products.

Because of performance reasons, I split this into batches.

Problem:

But each time I'm done with a batch the reindexing starts for the products that belong to that batch. Indexes are set to "real time".

Desired result:
I want to disable the reindexing during the execution of my script.

But I don't want to set the reindex mode to 'schedule' because my script can take a while and any other operations done via admin need to still trigger the indexing for those specific products.

Main Question:
How can I tell magento at the start of my script "Don't reindex anything during this script, no matter on how the index mode is set!!" ?

Note: The script is a magento command executed either via cli or cron.

Great question! In theory this is possible. Magento commands are based on Symfony. You could use SymfonyComponentFilesystemLockHandler class to create a lock to your command.

Then have a plugin to the reindex manager, where you would check if your command is locked. If your command is locked then it means it's running therefore don't proceed to the reindexing etc.

Note: When your commands ends make sure to release it.

I ended up taking an approach that looks a bit dirty, but it does the job.

My script starts with this:

$this->registry->register('skip_indexing', true);

and ends with

$this->registry->unregister('skip_indexing');

where $this->registry is an instance of MagentoFrameworkRegistry.

and I've added an after plugin for MagentoIndexerModelIndexer::isScheduled to simulate that the indexer is set "on schedule".

public function afterIsScheduled(MagentoIndexerModelIndexer $subject, $result)

 if ($this->registry->registry('skip_indexing')) 
 return true;
 
 return $result;

Not proud of it, but it gets the job done.