mailbox tubes

[kr]

Most tubes exist as long as jobs exist in them or a client is watching or using them. Mailbox tubes exist only while a client is watching. If no clients are watching, the tube and all jobs in it vanish.

A common use for this is to indicate completion of a job by a "reply job" sent to a mailbox tube.

Such tubes can be marked as special by prefixing the name with a special char. I think "~" would work fine as that char.

[kr]

This falls outside the main scope of beanstalkd's purpose, but I think it opens up a lot of interesting possibilities.

[andreisavu]

+1 I like the idea of using beanstalkd as a communication bus for actors.

[nodeGarden]

basically persistance when empty right? I definitely would love this, or some way to create "base" tubes when starting the server. For instance I need 4 tubes that are always there. If I poll them after they empty, then I get uncaught exception... when I think it should just be "no job" message.

Oddly, I've noticed that ONE of my tubes HAS stayed open after emptying... not sure why that one has, and others haven't.

[kr]

nodeGarden: this is somewhat different from what you described.
Feel free to post on the mailing list or send me a message with
your other questions, so we don't get too off-topic here.

[JensRantil]

#244 might be related to this.