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#
# (c) Jan Gehring <jan.gehring@gmail.com>
#
=head1 NAME
Rex::Transaction - Transaction support
=head1 DESCRIPTION
With this module you can define transactions and rollback scenarios on failure.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Rex::Transaction;
task 'do-something', 'server01', sub {
transaction {
on_rollback {
rmdir '/tmp/mydata';
};
mkdir '/tmp/mydata';
upload 'files/myapp.tar.gz', '/tmp/mydata';
run 'tar xzf myapp.tar.gz -C /tmp/mydata';
if ( $? != 0 ) { die('Error extracting myapp.tar.gz'); }
};
};
=head1 EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
=cut
use v5.12.5;
our $VERSION = '1.16.0'; # VERSION
require Exporter;
use vars qw(@EXPORT @ROLLBACKS);
use base qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(transaction on_rollback);
=head2 transaction($codeRef)
Start a transaction for C<$codeRef>. If C<$codeRef> dies, Rex will run the L<on_rollback|https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex::Transaction#on_rollback> code to roll back the transaction.
task 'deploy', group => 'frontend', sub {
on_rollback {
rmdir '...';
};
deploy 'myapp.tar.gz';
};
task 'restart_server', group => 'frontend', sub {
service apache2 => 'restart';
};
task 'all', group => 'frontend', sub {
transaction {
do_task [qw/deploy restart_server/];
};
};
=cut
sub transaction(&) {
my ($code) = @_;
my $ret = 1;
Rex::Logger::debug("Cleaning ROLLBACKS array");
@ROLLBACKS = ();
Rex::TaskList->create()->set_in_transaction(1);
eval { &$code(); };
if ($@) {
my $err = $@;
Rex::Logger::info("Transaction failed. Rolling back.");
$ret = 0;
for my $rollback_code ( reverse @ROLLBACKS ) {
# push the connection of the task back
Rex::push_connection( $rollback_code->{"connection"} );
# run the rollback code
&{ $rollback_code->{"code"} }($err);
# and pop it away
Rex::pop_connection();
}
Rex::TaskList->create()->set_in_transaction(0);
die("Transaction failed. Rollback done.");
}
Rex::TaskList->create()->set_in_transaction(0);
return $ret;
}
=head2 on_rollback($codeRef)
This will execute C<$codeRef> if a step in the L<transaction|https://metacpan.org/pod/Rex::Transaction#transaction> fails.
=cut
sub on_rollback(&) {
my ($code) = @_;
push(
@ROLLBACKS,
{
code => $code,
connection => Rex::get_current_connection()
}
);
}
1;