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title: "Artisan commands — Requests for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "requests:expire expires stale requests with a dry run and chunking; about reports the package setup."
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# Artisan commands

## requests:expire

Expire open requests whose deadline has passed — a thin wrapper over Requests::expireDue():

```bash
php artisan requests:expire            # expire all open, past-due requests
php artisan requests:expire --dry-run  # report only, change nothing
php artisan requests:expire --chunk=1000
```

| Option | Default | Effect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `--dry-run` | off | Report how many requests would expire; change nothing and lapse no approval decisions or rounds. |
| `--chunk=` | 500 | Requests processed per batch (chunkById); values below 1 are raised to 1. |

After expiring requests (not on a dry run), the command calls Approvals::expire() scoped to the request model, lapsing the approval decisions and rounds on requests whose own expiry has passed — the rest of your app’s approvals are left alone. The count is what this run expired: a request decided, cancelled or expired by an overlapping run in the meantime is skipped. It reports what it did:

```
Would expire 3 request(s).               # --dry-run
Expired 3 request(s).
Lapsed 2 expired approval decision(s).   # only when decisions lapsed
```

## about

The package contributes a Requests section to Laravel’s about command — the configured model (class basename only), the transition guard (ENFORCED or OFF), the default TTL (for example 90 min, or NONE) and the facade alias (Requests or DISABLED):

```bash
php artisan about --only=requests
```

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