defmodule Singleton do @moduledoc """ Singleton. The top supervisor of singleton is a DynamicSupervisor, started in your application's own OTP tree. Singleton can manage many singleton processes at the same time. Each singleton is identified by its unique `name` term. """ @doc """ Start a new singleton process. Optionally provide the `on_conflict` parameter which will be called whenever a singleton process shuts down due to another instance being present in the cluster. This function needs to be executed on all nodes where the singleton process is allowed to live. The actual process will be started only once; a manager process is started on each node for each singleton to ensure that the process continues on (possibly) another node in case of node disconnects or crashes. """ def start_child( supervisor_name, module, args, name, on_conflict \\ fn -> nil end ) do child_name = name(module, args) spec = {Singleton.Manager, [ mod: module, args: args, name: name, child_name: child_name, on_conflict: on_conflict ]} case Process.whereis(supervisor_name) do nil -> raise(""" No process found with name #{supervisor_name}. Singleton.Supervisor must be added to your application's supervision tree. If your application includes a supervision tree in `application.ex`, you can simply add `Singleton.Supervisor` to the list of children. children = [ ..., {Singleton.Supervisor, name: MyApp.Singleton} ] supervisor = Supervisor.start_link(children, opts) """) _pid -> DynamicSupervisor.start_child(supervisor_name, spec) end end def stop_child(supervisor_name, module, args) do child_name = name(module, args) case Process.whereis(child_name) do nil -> {:error, :not_found} pid -> DynamicSupervisor.terminate_child(supervisor_name, pid) end end defp name(module, args) do bin = :crypto.hash(:sha, :erlang.term_to_binary({module, args})) String.to_atom("singleton_" <> Base.encode64(bin, padding: false)) end end