restful-distributed-lock-manager

Status (master branch)

What is it ?

RDLM (Restful Distributed Lock Manager) is a lock manager over HTTP built on Tornado.

Special features

RESTful interface
Timeout automatic management (to avoid stale locks)
Blocking wait for acquiring a lock (with customatizable timeout)
Very fast (in memory)
One unique single threaded process
Can deal with thousands of locks and simultaneous connections
Administrative password protected requests

Quickstart

Installation

pip install rdlm

Requirements: 
- Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 or 3.3
- Tornado >= 2.3

Starting the daemon

rdlm-daemon.py --port=8888 --logging=debug

(rdlm-daemon.py --help for the full list of options)

Concepts

In RDLM, there are only three (easy) concepts :

the resource, which is designed as a simple string ([a-zA-Z0-9]+ regexp)
the lock, which is always exclusive in this version of RDLM
the client, which can acquire or release some locks on resources

For a given resource, at a given time, there is only a maximum of ONE exclusive lock acquired.

Of course, clients can be distributed on different machines / networks... without any change on the rule of the exclusive lock.

The lock is defined by 3 incoming parameters :

the "title" param, which is a simple indicative string about the client requesting the lock (so a kind of "user agent")
the "lifetime" param (in seconds), which is the maximum duration of the lock when acquired (after this, the lock will be considered as automatically released)
the "wait" param (in seconds), which is the maximum duration to wait before acquiring the lock (after this, the client gives up about acquiring the lock)

If the lock is acquired, the system returns the lock as a unique URL.

API

The HTTP API is fully described in the the specific API.md file.

Example of consuming the API

This example is described here with the python/request library but it's a HTTP/RESTful API, so it's not linked with a specific language or tool.

You can also have a look at a pure python client : rdlm-py.

Imports and constants

>>> import requests
>>> import json

>>> BASE_URL = "http://localhost:8888"
>>> RESOURCE_NAME1 = "resource1"

Acquire a lock on the resource "resource1" (and get it !)

>>> lock_dict = {"title": "just an indicative client title", "lifetime": 300, "wait": 20}
>>> raw_body = json.dumps(lock_dict)
=> you have to do an HTTP/POST with a non encoded body (raw) which is a JSON string with these 3 keys

>>> r = requests.post("%s/locks/%s" % (BASE_URL, RESOURCE_NAME1), data=raw_body)
=> we post it to /locks/resource1

>>> r.status_code
201
=> SUCCESS / CREATED

>>> lock_url = r.headers['Location']
>>> lock_url
http://localhost:8888/locks/resource1/ff14608f6ab342f0bb2a86d551d42a8c
=> the lock_url is the unique identifier for this successful lock

Acquire a lock on the resource "resource1" (and don't get it, timeout after 20 ("wait") seconds)

>>> lock_dict = {"title": "just an indicative client title", "lifetime": 300, "wait": 20}
>>> raw_body = json.dumps(lock_dict)
>>> r = requests.post("%s/locks/%s" % (BASE_URL, RESOURCE_NAME1), data=raw_body)
>>> [...] blocking during 20 ("wait") seconds
>>> r.status_code
408
=> CLIENT ERROR / REQUEST TIMEOUT

Release a lock (which is really exist !)

>>> r = requests.delete(lock_url)
>>> r.status_code
204
=> SUCCESS / NO CONTENT (the lock is deleted)

Release a lock (which is does not exist anymore !)

>>> r = requests.delete(lock_url)
>>> r.status_code
404
=> CLIENT ERROR / NOT FOUND

License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2013 Fabien MARTY <fabien.marty@gmail.com>

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