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tigron/skeleton-lock
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Atomic locking for skeleton

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skeleton-lock
=============

[](#skeleton-lock)

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Various locking mechanisms, providing atomic locks.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Installation via composer:

```
composer require tigron/skeleton-lock

```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

In the default case, `skeleton-lock` assumes it is running an application on a single node, and using an RDBMS which supports locks (e.g. MySQL/ MariaDB's `GET_LOCK()`).

However, this is not always supported, for example when running a clustered database.

The following mechanisms are supported:

- database (default)
- file
- memcache
- memcached

This can be configured via `Config`:

```
\Skeleton\Lock\Config::$locking = 'database';

```

Of course, each mechanism requires the supporting skeleton package to be installed as well, and requires the settings for that specific mechanism to be defined.

```
\Skeleton\Object\Config::$cache_handler_config = [
	'hostname' => '127.0.0.1', // memcache/memcached
	'port' => '12211', // memcache/memcached
	'dsn' => 'mysqli://user@database/table', // database
	'path' => '/path/', // file
	'expire' => 10, // not supported for database
];

```

Note that not all mechanisms support all features. For example, database locks can not expire.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

For getting a lock, you can either call `obtain()` or `wait()`, where the former will fail immediately if it can not get a lock, and the latter will retry until the specified timeout expired.

Releasing a lock is done with `release()`.

### Examples

[](#examples)

Get the current handler, and wait for 5 seconds to acquire `mylock`:

```
\Skeleton\Lock\Handler::get()::wait('mylock', wait: 5);

```

Get the current handler, get `mylock` immediately and deal with potential failure:

```
try {
	$lock = \Skeleton\Lock\Handler::get();
	$lock::obtain('mylock');
} catch (\Skeleton\Lock\Exception\Failed $e) {
	echo 'Could not get the lock';
}

```

Releasing the lock we got earlier:

```
$lock::release('mylock');

```

###  Health Score

41

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance72

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~23 days

Recently: every ~29 days

Total

6

Last Release

161d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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