Async locker for ReactPHP

Table of Contents

• Quickstart example
• Enqueue Timeout
• Adapters
  • InMemory
  • Redis
• Install
• Tests
• License

ReactPHP lockers are a bit different. Because they are built on top a non-blocking and asynchronous library, they have the power of being really reactive. That means that the performance increases so much, and no pulling is done in any locker adapter.

This is a small example that would properly work if all the resource lockers are alive in the same PHP thread.

$loop = React\EventLoop\Factory::create();
$adapter = new InMemoryAdapter($loop);
$locker = LockerFactory::create($adapter, 'res1');

$promise = $locker
    ->enqueue()
    ->then(function(Locker $locker) {
        // Do whatever
    })
    ->release();

Only one requester will have the possibility to work with the same resource at the same time, and all other resource clients will be just waiting, without asking the resource once and again.

Your resource clients can easily forget about them by using some timeout. If the resource is not a must, or simply you want to throw an exception when the resource is not been available for a while, then this is the place for this.

$promise = $locker
    ->enqueue(10)
    ->then(function(Locker $locker) {
        // Do whatever
    })
    ->release();

You can select different adapters, depending on the tecnologies you work with, but as well, depending on the scope of your resource. It has no sense to work with a in-memory resource if your scope is a cluster of servers.

The scope is the PHP thread

$adapter = new InMemoryAdapter($loop);
$locker = LockerFactory::create($adapter, 'res1');

This adapter can work really well for a cluster of services. Because of the way this adapter works and the behavior of the Redis library implementation for ReactPHP, this adapter needs two connections to work properly.

$Factory = new Factory();
$client1 = $factory->createLazyClient('localhost');
$client2 = $factory->createLazyClient('localhost');

$adapter = new RedisAdapter($loop, $client1, $client2);
$locker = LockerFactory::create($adapter, 'res1');

The recommended way to install this library is through Composer. New to Composer?

This project follows SemVer. This will install the latest supported version:

$ composer require mmoreram/react-locker:dev-master

This library requires PHP7.

To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all dependencies through Composer:

$ composer install

To run the test suite, go to the project root and run:

$ php vendor/bin/phpunit

This project is released under the permissive MIT license.