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== Quixir/Supervision Guide == === Introduction === In Quixir, supervision is a powerful mechanism that helps in building fault-tolerant and scalable applications. Supervisors are responsible for monitoring and managing child processes, ensuring they are restarted in case of failures. This guide provides an in-depth understanding of how supervision works in Quixir and how to use it effectively in your applications. === Basic Supervision === ==== Understanding Supervisors ==== Supervisors are processes that oversee the lifecycle of other processes, known as child processes. They are responsible for starting, stopping, and restarting child processes in case of failures. ==== Structure of a Supervisor ==== A supervisor is defined using the `defmodule` directive and typically implements the `use Supervisor` macro. The `use Supervisor` macro sets up the necessary behavior and callbacks for a supervisor. ==== Starting Child Processes ==== Child processes are defined as part of the supervisor's children list. Each child is configured with a unique id and a module that implements the necessary behavior. The supervisor is responsible for starting these child processes when it starts. ==== Restart Strategies ==== Supervisors use restart strategies to determine how child processes should be restarted. There are several restart strategies available, including `:one_for_one`, `:one_for_all`, `:rest_for_one`, and `:simple_one_for_one`. Each strategy differs in how it handles restarts based on the type of failure. === Advanced Supervision === ==== Dynamic Supervision ==== Dynamic supervision allows you to start and stop child processes dynamically at runtime. This is useful when you need to add or remove child processes based on certain conditions or events. ==== Supervision Trees ==== Supervisors can be organized into a supervision tree, where a supervisor can have other supervisors as its children. This hierarchical structure allows for more complex fault-tolerant systems to be built. ==== Handling Termination ==== When a process terminates unexpectedly, supervisors can be configured to handle the termination gracefully. You can specify callback functions or strategies to clean up resources and take appropriate actions when a child process terminates. === Testing Supervisors === ==== Unit Testing Supervisors ==== When testing supervisors, it is important to cover various failure scenarios to ensure the proper behavior of the supervision tree. Quixir provides useful tools and libraries to help you test your supervisors effectively. ==== Integration Testing Supervisors ==== Integration testing allows you to test the interaction between supervisors and child processes, verifying the fault-tolerant and self-healing mechanisms in your application. Quixir provides frameworks and utilities to simplify integration testing of supervisors. === Conclusion === Supervision is a fundamental concept in Quixir for building robust and fault-tolerant systems. By understanding the basics of supervisors, restart strategies, dynamic supervision, and testing techniques, you can leverage this powerful mechanism to create reliable and scalable applications. For more information, please see the following articles: - [[Quixir/Supervisors]] - [[Quixir/Processes]] - [[Quixir/Testing]] - [[Quixir/Concurrency Models]] - [[Quixir/Fault Tolerance]] {{Elixir}} {{Quixir}}
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