Designing Elixir Systems with OTP/

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Configuring the Application

Configuring the Application

Let's learn how to start child processes and make them supervised.

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The next step is to tell application.ex to automatically use the QuizManager.start_link/3 we just wrote to start a child process.

Starting a child process

In /lib/mastery/application.ex, we’ll add the following to the list of child processes, like this:

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  def start(_type, _args) do 
    children = [
      { Mastery.Boundary.QuizManager,
        [name: Mastery.Boundary.QuizManager] }
  ]

We’ve told OTP that this application should have a generic supervisor. The following code tells the Supervisor how to get a child specification for this process:

{ Mastery.Boundary.QuizManager, 
[name: Mastery.Boundary.QuizManager]

Remember, a child specification defines the following:

  • A supervisor’s lifecycle policies.

  • The rules that govern when and how to start and stop a given process.

Our code will do this:

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