Wraps JavaScript's Map with a Time To Live (TTL). For long running programs, this can help prevent memory leaks in certain cases.
- Drop in replacement for
Map - Adds a Time To Live to Map Values, defaults to
Infinity - Supports all versions of Node.js 0.11+
- Robust and well tested
- 100% test coverage
- Simple, easy to maintain, code base.
- Lightweight codebase with No dependencies
If you store callbacks for outbound connections that you expect an eventual reply to, you may find that a reply never comes. For a single request, this may not be a big deal, but for a long running process over billions of requests you may find your process runs out of memory. Setting an upper limit to the amount of time you will hold onto a callback for any request will allow you to protect against memory leaks.
Exactly the same as a Map (including the es6 for...of syntax), except for one notable exception:
var Map = require('ttlmap');
var m = new Map();
m.set('foo', 'bar', 1000);
There is an optional third parameter for Map.set, a TTL in milliseconds. The same assurances of setTimeout are made of TTLs, there is no guarantee of precise timing nor of ordering.
GPLv3