Azure / Azure/azure-functions-durable-python

Proposal: Support Entity Locking

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#277 4 comentarios 0 reacciones 0 asignados Ver en GitHub
Enhancement fixed-in-v2
Lenguaje dominante
Python
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157
Forks
70
Merge medio
2 d 10 h
PR fusionados (30 d)
2

Descripción

We need to support the Durable Functions `lock` API that allows users to establish a critical section for serial Entity updates. I believe this would be the first OOProc PL to support this feature, so I want to make sure we're in the same page about how we plan to implement it.

I imagine the API would be `yield`able, giving us an opportunity to pause the orchestrator execution if the lock cannot be readily acquired, and that it would take as argument a list of EntityIds.

In other words, I expect its interface to be as follows:

```Python
def lock(entityIds: List[string]):
```

### Proposed syntax and usage patterns

The first, and recommended, usage pattern would be one where the lock disposal is automatically managed by some context manager, so as follows:

```Python
entityIds: List[string] = ["myEntity1", "myEntity2", ... ]
with (yield context.lock(entityIds)):
# entity ops ... the lock is released at the end of this segment
```

The second usage pattern is one where entities are locked and released _manually_ by separate APIs
```Python
entityIds: List[string] = ["myEntity1", "myEntity2", ... ]
yield context.lock(entityIds)
yield context.release(entityIds)
```

I expect we'll want to support this second option because not all OOProc PLs with necessarily have a convenient lock-disposal syntax such as Python's "with" statement.

Please let me know if y'all have any thoughts. Otherwise, I'll proceed to prioritize this for an upcoming release. Thanks!

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Línea de trabajo

Start with the proposed context.lock and context.release entry points, and compare their intended behavior with the Durable Functions lock API. Done means the project has an agreed design for pausing acquisition, automatic context-manager disposal, and manual release, with both proposed usage patterns covered by implementation and tests.

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Evaluación

Stack tecnológico
python
Área
backend-api-design, distributed-systems
Tipo de issue
Nueva funcionalidad
Dificultad
5/5
Tiempo estimado
Más de una semana
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
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Necesita aclaración
Aptitud para principiantes
35/100

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