[erlang-patches] allow use of proplists in supervisor start specs

[Henrik Nord]

Hi
I would like to include this patch, however it must be completed with 
documentation and tests.

Thank you for the contribution!

On 01/03/2012 10:11 PM, Richard Carlsson wrote:
> The formats of the supervisor flags (the 3-tuple {one_for_one, 
> Restarts, Time}) and the child specifications (6-tuples {name, etc., 
> etc.}) are annoyingly hard both to read and write. This patch makes it 
> possible to pass lists of options instead, and sets useful defaults 
> for most fields. This also opens for the possibility to add more flags 
> both to supervisors and children in the future.
>
>   git fetch git://github.com/richcarl/otp.git proplist-child-spec
>
> For example:
>
>   init()
>      SupFlags = [{period,10}],
>      Child = [{name, foo}, {start, {M,F,A}}]
>      {ok, {SupFlags, [Child]}}.
>
> This gets you a one-for-one supervisor with a particular restart time 
> period, and a single child with default behaviour. The name and start 
> options are required.
>
> The supervisor flag defaults are:
>
>     strategy = one_for_one
>     intensity = 10
>     period = 30
>
> I.e., one-for-one supervision and at most 10 restarts in the last 30 
> seconds. This restart frequency seems like a useful default; let me 
> know if you think some other numbers would be significantly better.
>
> The child spec defaults are:
>     restart_type = permanent
>     shutdown = 2000
>     child_type = worker
>     modules = [M], where M is the module in the start MFA
>
> Finally, there is a new function supervisor:get_childspec(Sup, Child) 
> which can be used to get the full child specification (as a list) 
> needed to restart the same child or another child like it.
>
> Note that the documentation has not been updated as part of this patch.
>
>   /Richard
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/Henrik Nord Erlang/OTP