Prototype of using Laravel Illuminate/queue inside of a Yii2 app

composer.json

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.4.0",
    "yiisoft/yii2": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "*",
    "yiisoft/yii2-redis": "*",
    "illuminate/queue": "~5.0",
    "illuminate/encryption": "~5.0",  // used to prototype, if we had an "Encrypter" class that implemented the Encrypter contract we could eliminate this dependency
    "jeremeamia/superclosure": "~2.0" // used to prototype pushing anonymous functions into a queue.  Required in Laravel if we want to push closures
  }
}

Controller or component

<?php
/* Note that the class and methods are prototype code, not copy/paste code
 *
 * However, the actual code in the action has been tested with a Yii2 app
 *
 */
class QueueComponent extends Component {

  public function actionTest() {
    $sync = new \Illuminate\Queue\SyncQueue;
    $container = new \Illuminate\Container\Container;
    $encrypter = new \Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter(str_random(32)); // a great place to use the Yii2 equivalent wrapped and implementing the necessary contract
    $container->instance('Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\Encrypter', $encrypter);

    // would it be possible to use the Yii2 DI container?  Might be if we get changes made upstream, but currently
    // Container is a hard requirement within illuminate\queue (not just a Container contract)
    $sync->setContainer($container);
    $sync->setEncrypter($encrypter);

    $container->singleton('IlluminateQueueClosure', function($container) use($encrypter)
    {
      return new \IlluminateQueueClosure($encrypter);
    });
    
    $sync->push(function($model) {
      print "made it here 2";
      return Yii::$app->mailer->compose()
        ->setTo('[email protected]')
        ->setFrom(['[email protected]'])
        ->setSubject("test")
        ->setTextBody("test body")
        ->send();
    });
  }
}