[erlang-questions] code_change for gen_fsm: how to actually handle a state change

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

The way it is done in our code (lots of it) is to match the old record
as a tuple.


bengt

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:51 +0100, Daniel Dormont wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a gen_fsm module and would like to take advantage of hot code
> deploy. The module uses a record (called "state") and the new version
> of the module includes some new fields in the record. What is a nice
> clean way to code the my_module:code_change function to deal with
> this? Are there any good examples out there on the web?
> 
> Note: for my purposes it would be sufficient to detect that the state
> record is out of date, and terminate cleanly. BUT the correct
> functionality of the terminate/3 function in my module depends on the
> state data, and I would need it to complete cleanly and not crash in
> this instance because there are other processes that depend on this
> one and need to be notified properly of its exit. The issue is that
> the state itself contains the data of which processes those are.
> 
> What's the best approach here?
> 
> thanks,
> Dan
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