gen_server and priority queues

Richard Cameron camster@REDACTED
Mon Oct 24 17:38:11 CEST 2005


I want to implement a server which processes messages in order of  
priority. I know I can do this in pure Erlang as:

handle(high, State) ->
     receive {high,Msg} ->
             do(Msg,State)
     after 0 ->
             handle(medium, State)
     end;
handle(medium, State) ->
     receive {medium,Msg} ->
             do(Msg, State)
     after 0 ->
             handle(low, State)
     end;
handle(low, State) ->
     receive {_,Msg} ->
             do(Msg, State)
     end.

... but what I really want is to be able to do this within OTP's  
gen_server behaviour. Is there a nice way to do this, or do I just  
need to roll my own server and then attach it to my supervision tree  
with a bridge?

Richard.



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