ZeroTierOne/ext/libpqxx-7.7.3/include/pqxx/transactor.hxx
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/* Transactor framework, a wrapper for safely retryable transactions.
*
* DO NOT INCLUDE THIS FILE DIRECTLY; include pqxx/transactor instead.
*
* Copyright (c) 2000-2022, Jeroen T. Vermeulen.
*
* See COPYING for copyright license. If you did not receive a file called
* COPYING with this source code, please notify the distributor of this
* mistake, or contact the author.
*/
#ifndef PQXX_H_TRANSACTOR
#define PQXX_H_TRANSACTOR
#if !defined(PQXX_HEADER_PRE)
# error "Include libpqxx headers as <pqxx/header>, not <pqxx/header.hxx>."
#endif
#include <functional>
#include <type_traits>
#include "pqxx/connection.hxx"
#include "pqxx/transaction.hxx"
namespace pqxx
{
/**
* @defgroup transactor Transactor framework
*
* Sometimes a transaction can fail for completely transient reasons, such as a
* conflict with another transaction in SERIALIZABLE isolation. The right way
* to handle those failures is often just to re-run the transaction from
* scratch.
*
* For example, your REST API might be handling each HTTP request in its own
* database transaction, and if this kind of transient failure happens, you
* simply want to "replay" the whole request, in a fresh transaction.
*
* You won't necessarily want to execute the exact same SQL commands with the
* exact same data. Some of your SQL statements may depend on state that can
* vary between retries. Data in the database may already have changed, for
* instance. So instead of dumbly replaying the SQL, you re-run the same
* application code that produced those SQL commands, from the start.
*
* The transactor framework makes it a little easier for you to do this safely,
* and avoid typical pitfalls. You encapsulate the work that you want to do
* into a callable that you pass to the @ref perform function.
*
* Here's how it works. You write your transaction code as a lambda or
* function, which creates its own transaction object, does its work, and
* commits at the end. You pass that callback to @ref pqxx::perform, which
* runs it for you.
*
* If there's a failure inside your callback, there will be an exception. Your
* transaction object goes out of scope and gets destroyed, so that it aborts
* implicitly. Seeing this, @ref perform tries running your callback again. It
* stops doing that when the callback succeeds, or when it has failed too many
* times, or when there's an error that leaves the database in an unknown
* state, such as a lost connection just while we're waiting for the database
* to confirm a commit. It all depends on the type of exception.
*
* The callback takes no arguments. If you're using lambdas, the easy way to
* pass arguments is for the lambda to "capture" them from your variables. Or,
* if you're using functions, you may want to use `std::bind`.
*
* Once your callback succeeds, it can return a result, and @ref perform will
* return that result back to you.
*/
//@{
/// Simple way to execute a transaction with automatic retry.
/**
* Executes your transaction code as a callback. Repeats it until it completes
* normally, or it throws an error other than the few libpqxx-generated
* exceptions that the framework understands, or after a given number of failed
* attempts, or if the transaction ends in an "in-doubt" state.
*
* (An in-doubt state is one where libpqxx cannot determine whether the server
* finally committed a transaction or not. This can happen if the network
* connection to the server is lost just while we're waiting for its reply to
* a "commit" statement. The server may have completed the commit, or not, but
* it can't tell you because there's no longer a connection.
*
* Using this still takes a bit of care. If your callback makes use of data
* from the database, you'll probably have to query that data within your
* callback. If the attempt to perform your callback fails, and the framework
* tries again, you'll be in a new transaction and the data in the database may
* have changed under your feet.
*
* Also be careful about changing variables or data structures from within
* your callback. The run may still fail, and perhaps get run again. The
* ideal way to do it (in most cases) is to return your result from your
* callback, and change your program's data state only after @ref perform
* completes successfully.
*
* @param callback Transaction code that can be called with no arguments.
* @param attempts Maximum number of times to attempt performing callback.
* Must be greater than zero.
* @return Whatever your callback returns.
*/
template<typename TRANSACTION_CALLBACK>
inline auto perform(TRANSACTION_CALLBACK &&callback, int attempts = 3)
-> std::invoke_result_t<TRANSACTION_CALLBACK>
{
if (attempts <= 0)
throw std::invalid_argument{
"Zero or negative number of attempts passed to pqxx::perform()."};
for (; attempts > 0; --attempts)
{
try
{
return std::invoke(callback);
}
catch (in_doubt_error const &)
{
// Not sure whether transaction went through or not. The last thing in
// the world that we should do now is try again!
throw;
}
catch (statement_completion_unknown const &)
{
// Not sure whether our last statement succeeded. Don't risk running it
// again.
throw;
}
catch (broken_connection const &)
{
// Connection failed. May be worth retrying, if the transactor opens its
// own connection.
if (attempts <= 1)
throw;
continue;
}
catch (transaction_rollback const &)
{
// Some error that may well be transient, such as serialization failure
// or deadlock. Worth retrying.
if (attempts <= 1)
throw;
continue;
}
}
throw pqxx::internal_error{"No outcome reached on perform()."};
}
} // namespace pqxx
//@}
#endif