[erlang-questions] Message Loop in Gen_Server

[JD Bothma]

Can I ask what your never-exiting loop is doing?

what is the purpose of the gen_server if the process will forever loop in
loop and not deal with gen_server messages?


On 17 April 2013 19:33, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> So, I've hit a "best practice" conundrum in OTP; I have a server utilising
> gen_server for a RabbitMQ consumer.  In the init of that gen_server, I'm
> setting up a RabbitMQ connection, but I also need to start a loop.  My
> guess was that I shouldn't call this before init exits, as I was passing
> the Connection and Channel objects to state for handling elsewhere.  If I
> handle the loop in init, surely it will never return?
>
> To simplify what I'm saying (as I'm confusing myself here), here's my code:
>
> init([]) ->
>     {ok, Connection} = amqp_connection:start(#amqp_params_network{
> host="localhost" }),
>     {ok, Channel} = amqp_connection:open_channel(Connection),
>     amqp_channel:call(Channel, #'exchange.declare'{exchange =
> <<"user_msgs">>,
>                                                    type = <<"direct">>}),
>     #'queue.declare_ok'{queue = Queue} =
>         amqp_channel:call(Channel, #'queue.declare'{exclusive = true}),
>     State = {Channel, Connection},
>     amqp_channel:call(Channel, #'queue.bind'{exchange = <<"user_msgs">>,
>                                               routing_key =
> term_to_binary(node(self())),
>                                               queue = Queue}),
>     amqp_channel:subscribe(Channel, #'basic.consume'{queue = Queue,
>         no_ack = true}, self()),
>     receive
>         #'basic.consume_ok'{} -> ok
>     end,
>     loop(Channel),
>     {ok, State}.
>
> Now, if I don't put the loop in my init, then how can I be sure that the
> loop is called every time the gen_server restarts?  Can someone please
> suggest the "right" way to call the loop in my gen_server?
>
> Thanks loads,
> Lee
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