texthtml / php-lock
ressource lock
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Requires
- psr/log: ~1.0
Requires (Dev)
- php-vfs/php-vfs: ~1.2
- phpspec/phpspec: ^2.4
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Last update: 2024-10-27 23:41:53 UTC
README
php-lock is a library that makes locking on resources easy. It can be used to avoid access to a file during write operations or to prevent crontabs to overlap. And it's designed to integrate well with Dependancy Injection (eg Symfony Container or Pimple).
Installation
With Composer :
composer require texthtml/php-lock
Usage
You can create an object that represent a lock on a file. You can then try to acquire that lock by calling $lock->acquire()
. If the lock fail it will throw a \TH\Lock\Exception
(useful for CLI tools built with Symfony Console Components documentation). If the lock is acquired the program can continue.
Locking a file exclusively
use TH\Lock\FileLock; $lock = new FileLock('/path/to/file'); $lock->acquire(); // other processes that try to acquire a lock on the file will fail // edit /path/to/file $lock->release(); // other processes can now acquire a lock on the file
Sharing a lock on a file
use TH\Lock\FileLock; $lock = new FileLock('/path/to/file', FileLock::SHARED); $lock->acquire(); // other processes that try to acquire an exclusive lock on the file will fail, // processes that try to acquire an shared lock on the file will succeed // read /path/to/file $lock->release(); // other processes can now acquire an exclusive lock on the file if no other shared lock remains.
Auto release
$lock->release()
is called automatically when the lock is destroyed so you don't need to manually release it at the end of a script or if it got out of scope.
use TH\Lock\FileLock; function batch() { $lock = new FileLock('/some/file'); $lock->acquire(); // lot of editing on file } batch(); // the lock will be released here even if $lock->release() is not called in batch()
Using lock for crontabs
When you don't want some crontabs to overlap you can make a lock on the same file in each crontab. The TH\Lock\LockFactory
can ease the process and provide more helpful message in case of overlap.
$lock = $factory->create('protected resource', 'process 1'); $lock->acquire(); // process 1 does stuff
$lock = $factory->create('protected resource', 'process 2'); $lock->acquire(); // process 2 does stuff
When process 1 is running and we start process 2, an Exception will be thrown: "Could not acquire exclusive lock on protected resource" and if the factory was configured with a \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface
, messages explaining what happend would be logged:
process 1: exclusive lock acquired on protected resource
process 2: could not acquire exclusive lock on protected resource
process 2: lock released on protected resource
The only LockFactory
available at the moment is the TH\Lock\FileFactory
. This factory autmatically create lock files for your resources in the specified folder.
use TH\Lock\FileFactory; $factory = new FileFactory('/path/to/lock_dir/'); $lock = $factory->create('resource identifier');
Aggregating locks
If you want to simplify acquiring multiple locks at once, you can use the \TH\Lock\LockSet
:
use TH\Lock\LockSet; $superLock = new LockSet([$lock1, $lock2, $lock3]); // You can make a set with any types of locks (eg: FileLock, RedisSimpleLock or another nested LockSet) $superLock->acquire(); // all locks will be released when $superLock is destroyed or when `$superLock->release()` is called
It will try to acquire all locks, if it fails it will release the lock that have been acquired to avoid locking other processes.
note: Lock
put inside a LockSet
should not be used manually anymore
Notes
Distributed system
On a distributed system, file based locking does not work, You can use the php-lock redis extension to have a safe lock instead.