Allow running cron jobs by code

[apiuser]

Feature request from Flyingmana, posted on GitHub Oct 12, 2015

To make debugging cronjobs a lot easier, it would be great if I can execute them directly via CLI

[apiuser]

Comment from antonkril, posted on GitHub Oct 12, 2015

Also you can (should) write integration tests for them. Btw, doesn't custom cron group work for you?

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Comment from Flyingmana, posted on GitHub Oct 12, 2015

Can I find documentation or an example for a integration test of cron?

I tried custom cron groups, but I can not rerun a job multiple times in less then a minute.

Also, I dont deploy phpunit to production environment, so I cant run the job there again to see, if the failing is random or reproducable, or just rerun it after changing a setting I forgot. Are this enough reasons to have this?

[apiuser]

Comment from alankent, posted on GitHub Oct 12, 2015

Do you mean more than 'magento cron:run'? You want to select the specific code to run? Maybe add a command line option to the existing command?

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Comment from Flyingmana, posted on GitHub Oct 12, 2015

yes, the specific code, and then having this one job directly running. A command line option would be probably enough for this.

[pmsteil]

I found this was something I needed when I was trying to debug/configure/test generation of sitemap.xml files.  It would have been great if I could just run a CLI command to regenerate them.

Would 

bin/magento cron:run 

do this?