{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-unused-imports #-} {-| Use @threads-supervisor@ if you want the "poor-man's Erlang supervisors". @threads-supervisor@ is an IO-based library with minimal dependencies which does only one thing: It provides you a 'Supervisor' entity you can use to monitor your forked computations. If one of the managed threads dies, you can decide if and how to restart it. This gives you: * Protection against silent exceptions which might terminate your workers. * A simple but powerful way of structure your program into a supervision tree, where the leaves are the worker threads, and the nodes can be other supervisors being monitored. * A disaster recovery mechanism. You can install the @threads-supervisor@ library by running: > $ cabal install threads-supervisor -} module Control.Concurrent.Supervisor.Tutorial ( -- * Introduction -- $introduction -- * Different type of jobs -- $jobs -- * Creating a Supervisor -- $createSupervisor -- * Bounded vs Unbounded -- $boundedVsUnbounded -- * Supervising and choosing a 'RestartStrategy' -- $supervising -- * Wrapping up -- $conclusions ) where -- $introduction -- Who worked with Haskell's concurrency primitives would be surely familiar -- with the `forkIO` function, which allow us to fork an IO computation in a separate -- green thread. `forkIO` is great, but is also very low level, and has a -- couple of subtleties, as you can read from this passage of the documentation: -- -- The newly created thread has an exception handler that discards the exceptions -- `BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar`,`BlockedIndefinitelyOnSTM`, and `ThreadKilled`, -- and passes all other exceptions to the uncaught exception handler. -- -- To mitigate this, we have a couple of libraries available, for example -- <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async> and <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/slave-thread>. -- -- But what about if I do not want to take explicit action, but instead specifying upfront -- how to react to disaster, and leave the library work out the details? -- This is what this library aims to do. -- $jobs -- In this example, let's create four different threads: -- -- > job1 :: IO () -- > job1 = do -- > threadDelay 5000000 -- > fail "Dead" -- This job will die after five seconds. -- -- > job2 :: ThreadId -> IO () -- > job2 tid = do -- > threadDelay 3000000 -- > killThread tid -- -- This other job instead, we have waited three seconds, and then kill a target thread, -- generating an asynchronous exception. -- -- > job3 :: IO () -- > job3 = do -- > threadDelay 5000000 -- > error "Oh boy, I'm good as dead" -- -- This guy is very similar to the first one, except for the fact `error` is used instead of `fail`. -- -- > job4 :: IO () -- > job4 = threadDelay 7000000 -- @job4@ is what we wish for all our passing cross computation: smooth sailing. -- -- These jobs represent a significant pool of our everyday computations in the IO monad -- $createSupervisor -- Creating a 'Supervisor' is as simple as calling `newSupervisor`, specifying the `RestartStrategy` -- you want to use as well as the size of the `EventStream` (this depends whether you are using a Bounded -- supervisor or not). -- Immediately after doing so, a new thread will be started, monitoring any subsequent IO actions -- submitted to it. -- $boundedVsUnbounded -- By default, it's programmer responsibility to read the `SupervisionEvent` the library writes -- into its internal queue. If you do not do so, your program might leak. To mitigate this, and -- to offer a more granular control, two different modules are provided: a `Bounded` and an -- `Unbounded` one, which use, respectively, a `TBQueue` or a `TQueue` underneath. You can decide -- to go with the bounded version, with a queue size enforced by the library author, or pass in -- your own size. -- $supervising -- Let's wrap everything together into a full blown example: -- -- > main :: IO () -- > main = bracketOnError (do -- > -- > sup1 <- newSupervisor OneForOne -- > sup2 <- newSupervisor OneForOne -- > -- > monitorWith fibonacciRetryPolicy sup1 sup2 -- > -- > _ <- forkSupervised sup2 fibonacciRetryPolicy job3 -- > -- > j1 <- forkSupervised sup1 fibonacciRetryPolicy job1 -- > _ <- forkSupervised sup1 fibonacciRetryPolicy (job2 j1) -- > _ <- forkSupervised sup1 fibonacciRetryPolicy job4 -- > _ <- forkIO (go (eventStream sup1)) -- > return sup1) shutdownSupervisor (\_ -> threadDelay 10000000000) -- > where -- > go eS = do -- > newE <- atomically $ readTBQueue eS -- > print newE -- > go eS -- -- What we have done here, was to spawn two supervisors and we have used -- our swiss knife `forkSupervised` to spawn four supervised -- IO computations. As you can see, if we partially apply `forkSupervised`, -- its type resemble `forkIO` one; this is by design, as we want to keep -- this API as IO-friendly as possible. -- Note also how we can ask the first supervisor to monitor the second one. -- -- `fibonacciRetryPolicy` is a constructor for the `RetryPolicy`, which creates -- under the hood a `RetryPolicy` from the "retry" package which is using -- the `fibonacciBackoff`. The clear advantage is that you are not obliged to use -- it if you don't like this sensible default; -- `RetryPolicy` is an monoid, so you can compose retry policies as you wish. -- -- The `RetryPolicy` will also be responsible for determining whether a thread can be -- restarted or not; in the latter case you will find a `ChildRestartedLimitReached` -- in your event log. -- -- If you run this program, hopefully you should see on stdout -- something like this: -- -- > ChildBorn ThreadId 62 2015-02-13 11:51:15.293882 UTC -- > ChildBorn ThreadId 63 2015-02-13 11:51:15.293897 UTC -- > ChildBorn ThreadId 64 2015-02-13 11:51:15.293904 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 61 (MonitoredSupervision ThreadId 61) 2015-02-13 11:51:15.293941 UTC -- > ChildBorn ThreadId 65 2015-02-13 11:51:15.294014 UTC -- > ChildFinished ThreadId 64 2015-02-13 11:51:18.294797 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 63 thread killed 2015-02-13 11:51:18.294909 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 62 Oh boy, I'm good as dead 2015-02-13 11:51:20.294861 UTC -- > ChildRestarted ThreadId 62 ThreadId 68 OneForOne 2015-02-13 11:51:20.294861 UTC -- > ChildFinished ThreadId 65 2015-02-13 11:51:22.296089 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 68 Oh boy, I'm good as dead 2015-02-13 11:51:25.296189 UTC -- > ChildRestarted ThreadId 68 ThreadId 69 OneForOne 2015-02-13 11:51:25.296189 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 69 Oh boy, I'm good as dead 2015-02-13 11:51:30.297464 UTC -- > ChildRestarted ThreadId 69 ThreadId 70 OneForOne 2015-02-13 11:51:30.297464 UTC -- > ChildDied ThreadId 70 Oh boy, I'm good as dead 2015-02-13 11:51:35.298123 UTC -- > ChildRestarted ThreadId 70 ThreadId 71 OneForOne 2015-02-13 11:51:35.298123 UTC -- $conclusions -- I hope that you are now convinced that this library can be of some use to you!