Add limit option to rules action to avoid conflicts
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Reported by: [sgdev](https://www.drupal.org/user/184990)
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<p>We just found an unexpected bug at the end of this past month due to our use of the Interval module with Commerce Recurring Framework (<a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_recurring">https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_recurring</a>).</p>
<p>Commerce Recurring uses <code>interval_apply_interval</code> to determine the due date and end date of recurring transactions. In each case, it has <code>$limit = TRUE</code> to ensure dates are set as the last day of the month.</p>
<p>However, this causes a major conflict when we use the "Apply an interval to a date" rules action to set a matching role expiration date for a user. The rules action does not have an option to set the value for <code>$limit</code>, and therefore recurring transaction and role expiration dates get out of sync.</p>
<p>This is what we saw at the end of last month for an order created on February 28:</p>
<p><strong>RECURRING TRANSACTION</strong><br>
Order created: Thursday, February 28, 2019 11:50:01 PM GMT-06:00<br>
Order created (UTC): 03/01/2019 @ 5:50am (UTC)<br>
Scheduled renewal (UTC) (+1 month): 04/01/2019 @ 4:50am (UTC)<br>
Scheduled renewal: <strong>Sunday, March 31, 2019 11:50:01 PM GMT-05:00 DST</strong></p>
<p><strong>ROLE EXPIRATION</strong><br>
Order created: 02/28/2019 @ 11:50pm<br>
Scheduled expiration: <strong>03/28/2019 @ 11:50pm</strong></p>
<p>Because Commerce Recurring uses <code>$limit = TRUE</code> and the Rules action uses <code>$limit = FALSE</code> by default, we had a user with a 3-day gap between the date where the role expired, and the next scheduled renewal.</p>
<p>The way to fix this is provide an option in the Rules action to set <code>$limit = TRUE</code>. By setting the action parameter as "optional = TRUE", this patch should have no impact on anyone who already uses the rules action.</p>
<p>Please review the attached patch and let me know if there are any questions or suggestions. Thanks.</p>
>>> [!note] Pre-migration files
- [interval-add\_limit\_option\_to\_rules\_action-1.patch](https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2019-04-02/interval-add_limit_option_to_rules_action-1.patch)
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