[erlang-questions] gen_server and the run-time errors

[Ahmed Omar]

For the last question, it will be useful to start sasl before starting your
application.

Ivan,
init in gen_server should return {ok, State} not {ok, pid()}
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:init-1


2010/12/8 Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED>

> IIRC it is so, terminate/1 is not called if there is an error in init/1. I
> remember having read about it somewhere but can't find it now. The closest I
> could come up with is in
> http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#start_link-3 where it says:
>
> "If Module:init/1 fails with Reason, the function returns {error,Reason}.
> If Module:init/1 returns {stop,Reason} or ignore, the process is terminated
> and the function returns {error,Reason} or ignore, respectively."
>
> Also the documentation explicitly mentions how to return a value from other
> callback functions which causes the server to call terminate/1 and then
> terminate, but no mention of terminate is made in the docs for init/1.
>
> The logic is I suppose that if you haven't completed initialisation then
> there is nothing to clean-up after.
>
> Robert
>
> ----- "Gilberio Carmenates García" <co7eb@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> > Hi! Info,
> >
> > The terminate function isn't called possibility because the gen_server
> > never
> > started,
> > Your problem could be I'm close sure because the init() need to be
> > ended
> > with a {ok, Pid}, Pid could be self(). If you end the init() function
> > with
> > other thing, the same error you saw is threw.
> >
> >
> > Good Example:
> >
> > init(Args)->
> >       process_flag(trap_exit,true),
> >       evo_db_module:start(Args),
> >       {ok, self()}.
> >
> >
> > Bad Example:
> >
> > init(Args)->
> >       process_flag(trap_exit,true),
> >       evo_db_module:start(Args),
> >       some_fun_that_not_returns_ok_pid().
> >
> >
> > =INFO REPORT==== 7-Dec-2010::20:37:58 ===
> >     application: evo
> >     exited: {shutdown,{evo,start,[normal,[{...}]]}}
> >     type: temporary
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Ivan.
> >
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED]
> > En
> > nombre de info
> > Enviado el: Martes, 07 de Diciembre de 2010 14:50
> > Para: erlang-questions
> > Asunto: [erlang-questions] gen_server and the run-time errors
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have a run-time error in the init part of a gen_server.
> > - Init begin by process_flag(trap_exit,true)
> > - gen_server is part of a supervision tree
> > I try to print the reason in the terminate module but it seems to
> > exit
> > elsewhere.
> > - why terminate is not called ?
> > The application stops with shutdown as reason.
> > - How and where to catch the run-time error ?
> >
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