Channel

Access components

use \Co\IO;

IO::Channel();

###API

//Create a channel
public function make(string $name): Channel;

Overview

Channel is a data channel in ripple, used for communication between multiple processes. It is worth noting that ripple’s Channel scope is local and global. You can use Channel as follows

Reading and writing of this Channel are atomic operations, ensuring data consistency.

When multiple processes read at the same time, only one process can read the data, and other processes will be blocked until the data is read. If you set Channel to be a non-blocking pipe, will return null without throwing an exception

When multiple processes write at the same time, the process that obtains the write lock will write the data, and other processes will be blocked until the data is written. Data consistency is ensured.

example

$channel = \Co\IO::Channel()->make('common');

$task = \Co\System::Process()->task(function() use ($channel){
    $channel->setBloking(true);
    
    while($task = $channel->receive()){
        //TODO: consumption task
    });
});

//Run 10 subroutines to process tasks
for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++){
    $task->run();
}

while(1){
    // TODO: do something
    $task->send('task');
}

Scenario example

You can also use Channels to work together between multiple applications, such as Workerman+Laravel

Workerman part of the code

$worker = new Worker('websocket://127.0.0.1:2346');
$worker->onWorkerStart = function() {
    $channel = \Co\IO::Channel()->make('websocket');
    $channel->setBloking(false);
    
    Timer::add(1, function() use ($channel){
        if($message = $channel->receive()){
            // TODO: consumption task
        }
    });
}

Worker::$eventLoopClass = Driver::class;
Worker::runAll();

Laravel controller part code

public function index(Request $request) : JsonResponse
{
    $channel = \Co\IO::Channel()->make('websocket');
    $channel->send($request->query('message'));
    return new JsonResponse(['status' => 'ok']);
}

Notes

Channel's communication data is serialized based on PHP serialization and supports the transmission of data types such as objects/arrays/strings, but does not support the transmission of non-serializable data types such as resources. Objects can be transferred, but make sure the target process has the same class definition. Otherwise, deserialization will not succeed.