ngx_lfstack

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• Introduction
• Usage
• Installation
• Test
• Support
• Copyright & License

Introduction

ngx_lfstack is the lock free stack(push/pop) container running on nginx share memory and it read/write across multiple threads and multiple workers without any lock!

ngx_lfstack is zero downtime nginx reloadable, data is on share memory, data is backupable in case nginx stop and start.

Usage

1. Setup your lfstack

# nginx.conf
http {
    ngx_lfstack_memory_allocate 10m;
    ngx_lfstack_name s1;
    ngx_lfstack_name s2;
    ngx_lfstack_name s3;
    ngx_lfstack_backup |@| /tmp/ngx_lfstack_data.txt;	
    ...
}

2. Push the message to specific stack name ngx_lfstack_target by using POST/PUT method only, the request_body will be taken as stack message, response code 202

# nginx.conf

server {
    ....
  location /processStack {
       ngx_lfstack_target s1;
   }


   location /processStackWithArgVariable {
       ngx_lfstack_target $arg_target;
   }
}

3. Destack the message by using GET method only, response code 200

# nginx.conf

server {
    ....
   location /processStack {
       ngx_lfstack_target s1;
   }
}

4. Get the stack info by using HEAD method only, response code 204, the headers response stack_size, total_push, total_pop

# nginx.conf

server {
    ....
   location /processStack {
       ngx_lfstack_target s1;
   }
}

# for push
POST /processStack HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 858bacc8-4826-9d8e-5ec5-fde220351b5d

{"Data":"MESSAGE 1......."}

#  for pop

GET /processStack HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: a0f89290-981a-2e18-cd99-40fa7fe734a0

#  for pop by using variable pass in 


GET /processStackWithArgVariable?target=q2 HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: a0f89290-981a-2e18-cd99-40fa7fe734a0

#  for queue info

HEAD /processStack HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 487251d4-51e9-33ee-58cf-343f259df27b

Installation

ngx_lfstack is depends on lfstack , install lfstack as .so library before install ngx_lfstack.

wget 'http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.13.7.tar.gz'
tar -xzvf nginx-1.13.7.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.13.7/

./configure --add-module=/path/to/ngx_lfstack

make -j2
sudo make install

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Test

It depends on nginx test suite libs, please refer test-nginx for installation.

cd /path/to/ngx_lfstack
export PATH=/path/to/nginx-dirname:$PATH 
sudo prove t

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Support

Please do not hesitate to contact minikawoon2017@gmail.com for any queries or development improvement.

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Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2018, Taymindis cloudleware2015@gmail.com

This module is licensed under the terms of the BSD license.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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