[erlang-questions] Fire and Forget

[Steven Livingstone]

Thanks Paul. It was more that as i would be just logging lots of data,
if some gets lost it is ok, hence it doesn't need to wait on a 200.

So, I guess it was how to optimise under those conditions, but perhaps
doing an async post and later getting a 200, even if it is just a "all
is ok" even if i don't intend to do anything beyond that may be a
sensible approach anyway.

Restart temporary under supervisor sounds good - i mainly don't want
to block anything. Unfortunately I come with the burden of years of
procedural programming so my mindset is still adjusting to the fact
spinning up many processes is a good thing in erlang.

It may be I should be passing the data using something other than an
HTTP POST and more erlang-like but one step at a time :-)

regards,
steven

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Paul Peregud <paulperegud@REDACTED> wrote:
> Low complexity solution: just spawn a process which will send request
> and terminate.
> More complex solution: spawn process under supervisor. Restart
> strategy "temporary" is a good fit. Or "transient" if you want to
> restart failed attempts.
>
> As for "response never happens". Do you mean that server does not
> return anything ever? Not even HTTP 200 OK? Just holds up connection?
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Steven Livingstone <steven@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Hi all, Erlang newbie here. So, hello all :-) Now,
>>
>> I wish to do a fire and forget http post in Erlang.
>>
>> I looked at the httpc module which seems to allow synchronous and
>> asynchronous calls but in the latter case i do not expect a return
>> value so don't need a request id .... and not sure whether that
>> behaviour influences what I want ... does it hold open a connection or
>> use up resources on a response that is never going to happen etc.
>>
>> Does anyone know the best approach?
>>
>> many thanks,
>> steven
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