RedLock

Distributed locking mechanism with lock names, retries, timeouts and keep-alive.

Example

var redlock = require('redlock');

var getLock = redlock({
    client  : redisClient,
    prefix  : 'lock:',
    timeout : 120,

});

getLock('mylock', function(err, lock) {
    // if there's been a bad error, get out of here
    if (err) throw err;

    // if we didn't get the lock, just return
    if ( !lock ) return;

    doSomethingInvolvingAsyn(function(err) {
        // we've now finished with the lock
        lock.release();
    });
});

Options to 'redlock'

• client
• prefix (default: '')
• timeout (default: 60)

Options to 'getLock'

• name (required)
• timeout (optional)
• callback (required)

If you provide a timeout, it will be

Author

Written by Andrew Chilton - Blog - Twitter.

License

• Copyright 2013 Andrew Chilton. All rights reserved.

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