[erlang-questions] Supervisor on-demand

[Andreas Hillqvist]

Hi.

It sounds like simple_one_for_one would work for you.
It is possible to pass the id or any additional parameters to start_child:
   supervisor:start_child(SupRef, [YourId])


Regards
Andreas Hillqvist

2008/2/25, Juan Jose Comellas <juanjo@REDACTED>:
> I have the following scenario and I'm not really sure of how to represent it
> with OTP. I have an application (appmod) running within Yaws that has to
> create a worker process every time it receives an HTTP request.The worker
> process is created for a specific ID that comes with the request and for
> different requests that contain the same ID, the same worker process must be
> used. Once instantiated, the worker process must remain up and until it is
> explicitly stopped.
>
> I want to monitor the worker processes with an OTP supervisor, but so far
> I'm not completely sure of what the correct approach should be. Should I
> call supervisor:start_link() the first time I get a request for a specific
> ID and then supervisor:start_child() for the following ones? Or should I
> just create one supervisor process per worker process I have? Can anyone
> share some tips with me on how to design a solution for this problem within
> OTP?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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