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# Fang
Background task processing library for Rust. It uses Postgres DB as a task queue.
## Features
- Asynk feature uses `tokio`. Workers are started in tokio tasks.
- Blocking feature uses `std::thread`. Workers are started in a separated threads.
## Installation
1. Add this to your Cargo.toml
#### Blocking feature
```toml
[dependencies]
fang = { version = "0.8" , features = ["blocking"], default-features = false }
```
#### Asynk feature
```toml
[dependencies]
fang = { version = "0.8" , features = ["asynk"], default-features = false }
```
#### Both features
```toml
fang = { version = "0.8" }
```
*Supports rustc 1.62+*
2. Create `fang_tasks` table in the Postgres database. The migration can be found in [the migrations directory](https://github.com/ayrat555/fang/blob/master/migrations/2021-06-05-112912_create_fang_tasks/up.sql).
## Usage
### Defining a task
#### Blocking feature
Every task should implement `fang::Runnable` trait which is used by `fang` to execute it.
```rust
use fang::Error;
use fang::Runnable;
use fang::typetag;
use fang::PgConnection;
use fang::serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(crate = "fang::serde")]
struct MyTask {
pub number: u16,
}
#[typetag::serde]
impl Runnable for MyTask {
fn run(&self, _connection: &PgConnection) -> Result<(), Error> {
println!("the number is {}", self.number);
Ok(())
}
}
```
As you can see from the example above, the trait implementation has `#[typetag::serde]` attribute which is used to deserialize the task.
The second parameter of the `run` function is diesel's PgConnection, You can re-use it to manipulate the task queue, for example, to add a new job during the current job's execution. Or you can just re-use it in your own queries if you're using diesel. If you don't need it, just ignore it.
#### Asynk feature
Every task should implement `fang::AsyncRunnable` trait which is used by `fang` to execute it.
Also be careful to not to call with the same name two impl of AsyncRunnable, because will cause a fail with typetag.
```rust
use fang::AsyncRunnable;
use fang::asynk::async_queue::AsyncQueueable;
use fang::serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use fang::async_trait;
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(crate = "fang::serde")]
struct AsyncTask {
pub number: u16,
}
#[typetag::serde]
#[async_trait]
impl AsyncRunnable for AsyncTask {
async fn run(&self, _queueable: &mut dyn AsyncQueueable) -> Result<(), Error> {
Ok(())
}
// this func is optional to impl
// Default task-type it is common
fn task_type(&self) -> String {
"my-task-type".to_string()
}
}
```
### Enqueuing a task
#### Blocking feature
To enqueue a task use `Queue::enqueue_task`
```rust
use fang::Queue;
...
Queue::enqueue_task(&MyTask { number: 10 }).unwrap();
```
The example above creates a new postgres connection on every call. If you want to reuse the same postgres connection to enqueue several tasks use Postgres struct instance:
```rust
let queue = Queue::new();
for id in &unsynced_feed_ids {
queue.push_task(&SyncFeedMyTask { feed_id: *id }).unwrap();
}
```
Or you can use `PgConnection` struct:
```rust
Queue::push_task_query(pg_connection, &new_task).unwrap();
```
#### Asynk feature
To enqueue a task use `AsyncQueueable::insert_task`,
depending of the backend that you prefer you will need to do it with a specific queue.
For Postgres backend.
```rust
use fang::asynk::async_queue::AsyncQueue;
use fang::NoTls;
use fang::AsyncRunnable;
// Create a AsyncQueue
let max_pool_size: u32 = 2;
let mut queue = AsyncQueue::builder()
// Postgres database url
.uri("postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost/fang")
// Max number of connections that are allowed
.max_pool_size(max_pool_size)
// false if would like Uniqueness in tasks
.duplicated_tasks(true)
.build();
// Always connect first in order to perform any operation
queue.connect(NoTls).await.unwrap();
```
For easy example we are using NoTls type, if for some reason you would like to encrypt postgres traffic.
You can implement a Tls type.
It is well documented for [openssl](https://docs.rs/postgres-openssl/latest/postgres_openssl/) and [native-tls](https://docs.rs/postgres-native-tls/latest/postgres_native_tls/)
```rust
// AsyncTask from first example
let task = AsyncTask { 8 };
let task_returned = queue
.insert_task(&task as &dyn AsyncRunnable)
.await
.unwrap();
```
### Starting workers
#### Blocking feature
Every worker runs in a separate thread. In case of panic, they are always restarted.
Use `WorkerPool` to start workers. `WorkerPool::new` accepts one parameter - the number of workers.
```rust
use fang::WorkerPool;
WorkerPool::new(10).start();
```
Use `shutdown` to stop worker threads, they will try to finish in-progress tasks.
```rust
use fang::WorkerPool;
worker_pool = WorkerPool::new(10).start().unwrap;
worker_pool.shutdown()
```
Using a library like [signal-hook][signal-hook], it's possible to gracefully shutdown a worker. See the
Simple Worker for an example implementation.
#### Asynk feature
Every worker runs in a separate tokio task. In case of panic, they are always restarted.
Use `AsyncWorkerPool` to start workers.
```rust
use fang::asynk::async_worker_pool::AsyncWorkerPool;
// Need to create a queue
// Also insert some tasks
let mut pool: AsyncWorkerPool> = AsyncWorkerPool::builder()
.number_of_workers(max_pool_size)
.queue(queue.clone())
.build();
pool.start().await;
```
Check out:
- [Simple Worker Example](https://github.com/ayrat555/fang/tree/master/fang_examples/simple_worker) - simple worker example
- [Simple Async Worker Example](https://github.com/ayrat555/fang/tree/master/fang_examples/simple_async_worker) - simple async worker example
- [El Monitorro](https://github.com/ayrat555/el_monitorro) - telegram feed reader. It uses Fang blocking module to synchronize feeds and deliver updates to users.
- [weather_bot_rust](https://github.com/pxp9/weather_bot_rust) - A bot that provides weather info. It uses Fang asynk module to process updates from Telegram users.
### Configuration
#### Blocking feature
To configure workers, instead of `WorkerPool::new` which uses default values, use `WorkerPool.new_with_params`. It accepts two parameters - the number of workers and `WorkerParams` struct.
#### Asynk feature
Just use `TypeBuilder` done for `AsyncWorkerPool`.
### Configuring the type of workers
#### Blocking feature
You can start workers for a specific types of tasks. These workers will be executing only tasks of the specified type.
Add `task_type` method to the `Runnable` trait implementation:
```rust
...
#[typetag::serde]
impl Runnable for MyTask {
fn run(&self) -> Result<(), Error> {
println!("the number is {}", self.number);
Ok(())
}
fn task_type(&self) -> String {
"number".to_string()
}
}
```
Set `task_type` to the `WorkerParamas`:
```rust
let mut worker_params = WorkerParams::new();
worker_params.set_task_type("number".to_string());
WorkerPool::new_with_params(10, worker_params).start();
```
Without setting `task_type` workers will be executing any type of task.
#### Asynk feature
Same as Blocking feature.
Use `TypeBuilder` for `AsyncWorker`.
### Configuring retention mode
By default, all successfully finished tasks are removed from the DB, failed tasks aren't.
There are three retention modes you can use:
```rust
pub enum RetentionMode {
KeepAll, \\ doesn't remove tasks
RemoveAll, \\ removes all tasks
RemoveFinished, \\ default value
}
```
Set retention mode with `set_retention_mode`:
#### Blocking feature
```rust
let mut worker_params = WorkerParams::new();
worker_params.set_retention_mode(RetentionMode::RemoveAll);
WorkerPool::new_with_params(10, worker_params).start();
```
#### Asynk feature
Set it in `AsyncWorker` `TypeBuilder`.
### Configuring sleep values
#### Blocking feature
You can use use `SleepParams` to confugure sleep values:
```rust
pub struct SleepParams {
pub sleep_period: Duration, \\ default value is 5 seconds
pub max_sleep_period: Duration, \\ default value is 15 seconds
pub min_sleep_period: Duration, \\ default value is 5 seconds
pub sleep_step: Duration, \\ default value is 5 seconds
}
```
If there are no tasks in the DB, a worker sleeps for `sleep_period` and each time this value increases by `sleep_step` until it reaches `max_sleep_period`. `min_sleep_period` is the initial value for `sleep_period`. All values are in seconds.
Use `set_sleep_params` to set it:
```rust
let sleep_params = SleepParams {
sleep_period: Duration::from_secs(2),
max_sleep_period: Duration::from_secs(6),
min_sleep_period: Duration::from_secs(2),
sleep_step: Duration::from_secs(1),
};
let mut worker_params = WorkerParams::new();
worker_params.set_sleep_params(sleep_params);
WorkerPool::new_with_params(10, worker_params).start();
```
#### Asynk feature
Set it in `AsyncWorker` `TypeBuilder`.
## Periodic Tasks
Fang can add tasks to `fang_tasks` periodically. To use this feature first run [the migration with `fang_periodic_tasks` table](https://github.com/ayrat555/fang/tree/master/migrations/2021-07-24-050243_create_fang_periodic_tasks/up.sql).
Usage example:
#### Blocking feature
```rust
use fang::Scheduler;
use fang::Queue;
let queue = Queue::new();
queue
.push_periodic_task(&SyncMyTask::default(), 120000)
.unwrap();
queue
.push_periodic_task(&DeliverMyTask::default(), 60000)
.unwrap();
Scheduler::start(Duration::from_secs(10), Duration::from_secs(5));
```
In the example above, `push_periodic_task` is used to save the specified task to the `fang_periodic_tasks` table which will be enqueued (saved to `fang_tasks` table) every specied number of milliseconds.
`Scheduler::start(Duration::from_secs(10), Duration::from_secs(5))` starts scheduler. It accepts two parameters:
- Db check period
- Acceptable error limit - |current_time - scheduled_time| < error
#### Asynk feature
```rust
use fang::asynk::async_scheduler::Scheduler;
use fang::asynk::async_queue::AsyncQueueable;
use fang::asynk::async_queue::AsyncQueue;
use std::time::Duration;
use chrono::Duration as OtherDuration;
// Build a AsyncQueue as before
let schedule_in_future = Utc::now() + OtherDuration::seconds(5);
let _periodic_task = queue.insert_periodic_task(
&AsyncTask { number: 1 },
schedule_in_future,
10000, // period in milliseconds
)
.await;
let check_period: u64 = 1;
let error_margin_seconds: u64 = 2;
let mut scheduler = Scheduler::builder()
.check_period(Duration::from_secs(check_period))
.error_margin_seconds(Duration::from_secs(error_margin_seconds))
.queue(&mut queue as &mut dyn AsyncQueueable)
.build();
// Add some more task in other thread or before loop
// Scheduler Loop
scheduler.start().await.unwrap();
```
## Contributing
1. [Fork it!](https://github.com/ayrat555/fang/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request
### Running tests locally
```
cargo install diesel_cli
docker run --rm -d --name postgres -p 5432:5432 \
-e POSTGRES_DB=fang \
-e POSTGRES_USER=postgres \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
postgres:latest
DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost/fang diesel migration run
// Run regular tests
cargo test --all-features
// Run dirty/long tests, DB must be recreated afterwards
cargo test --all-features -- --ignored --test-threads=1
docker kill postgres
```
## Authors
- Ayrat Badykov (@ayrat555)
- Pepe Márquez (@pxp9)
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