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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:07:20 -0600
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Subject: Re: erlang notifiers and couchdb
From: Jeremy Wall <jwall@google.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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Using the OTP principles you would modify the couch_server_sup.erl file and
add a child spec for your module similar to the child spec for the couch_log
module in there.

I would recommend reading the OTP documentation on Supervisor trees and
gen_event behaviours before doing so though. That way you will know what
exactly it is that you are doing by adding them. Also it would be good to
add you module to the module list in a custome app file. I'm not sure if
there is someother hook for this in the code other than _external.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Norman Barker <norman.barker@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have create an erlang module called couch_db_update_my_notifier
> which is very similar to couch_db_update_notifier and just prints out
> events as they are received to stdout.
>
> I try to register this module as an event handler as follows within the
> module
>
> start_link(Exec) ->
>   io:format("***StartLink***"),
>   couch_event_sup:start_link(couch_db_update,
> {couch_db_update_my_notifier, make_ref()},  Exec).
>
> which is how it is recommended in couch_event_sup.erl
>
> Problem is how do I actually load couch_db_update_my_notifier and get
> start_link invoked, it isn't a daemon, just another listener, and the
> updatenotification handler in the ini file is for system processes.
>
> Is there a way to do this (easily)?  I am a newb at erlang and am
> writing these modules to find my way around the code.  Having multiple
> listeners to events is something I will want to have eventually hence
> why I am trying this.  My aim is to do this in Erlang, I know it can
> be done with _external.
>
> thanks,
>
> Norman
>

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