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Failover

This module contains failover subscription and broadcast APIs. Any instance can subscribe to multiple topics and manage callbacks on them. The ALL keyword can be used to set callbacks to run for each topic in addition to any specific ones defined.

Process can publish to specific topics or to all processes using the ALL keyword.

.px.rpl.addCallback

Register a topic handler. Function must take two parameters; topic(symbol), payload (dict)

Parameters:

Name Type Description
topic symbol Event topic
callback symbol Function name

Example:

 .ex.opsHandler:{[topic; payload] 0N!(topic; payload);}
 .px.rpl.addCallback[`OPS; `.ex.opsHandler]

.px.rpl.broadcast

Broadcast a failover event

Parameters:

Name Type Description
topic symbol Event topic
msg string Audit message
payload dict Event payload

Example: Specific topic

 prefs:`ds_rte_ops_b`ds_rte_ops_c`ds_rte_ops_a
 .px.rpl.broadcast[`OPS; ""; enlist[`procs]!enlist prefs]

Example: Publish to all instances

 .px.rpl.broadcast[`ALL; "Server down"; enlist[`server]!enlist `prod1]

.px.rpl.removeCallback

Removes a topic handler

Parameters:

Name Type Description
topic symbol Event topic
callback symbol Function name

Example:

 .ex.opsHandler:{[topic; payload] 0N!(topic; payload);}
 .px.rpl.addCallback[`OPS; `.ex.opsHandler]
 .px.rpl.removeCallback[`OPS; `.ex.opsHandler]

.px.rpl.subTopics

Subscribes to failover topic broadcasts

Parameter:

Name Type Description
topics symbol[] Subscription topics

Example:

 .px.rpl.subTopics[`QR`OPS]

.px.rpl.unsubTopics

Removes subscriptions to failover topic broadcasts

Parameter:

Name Type Description
topics symbol[] Subscription topics

Example:

 .px.rpl.unsubTopics[`QR`OPS]
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