Class: ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionHandler

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb

Overview

ConnectionHandler is a collection of ConnectionPool objects. It is used for keeping separate connection pools that connect to different databases.

For example, suppose that you have 5 models, with the following hierarchy:

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
end

class BankAccount < ActiveRecord::Base
end

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  establish_connection "library_db"
end

class ScaryBook < Book
end

class GoodBook < Book
end

And a database.yml that looked like this:

development:
  database: my_application
  host: localhost

library_db:
  database: library
  host: some.library.org

Your primary database in the development environment is “my_application” but the Book model connects to a separate database called “library_db” (this can even be a database on a different machine).

Book, ScaryBook and GoodBook will all use the same connection pool to “library_db” while Author, BankAccount, and any other models you create will use the default connection pool to “my_application”.

The various connection pools are managed by a single instance of ConnectionHandler accessible via ActiveRecord::Base.connection_handler. All Active Record models use this handler to determine the connection pool that they should use.

The ConnectionHandler class is not coupled with the Active models, as it has no knowlodge about the model. The model, needs to pass a specification name to the handler, in order to lookup the correct connection pool.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ ConnectionHandler

Returns a new instance of ConnectionHandler.



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 828

def initialize
  # These caches are keyed by spec.name (ConnectionSpecification#name).
  @owner_to_pool = Concurrent::Map.new(:initial_capacity => 2) do |h,k|
    h[k] = Concurrent::Map.new(:initial_capacity => 2)
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#active_connections? ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if there are any active connections among the connection pools that the ConnectionHandler is managing.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 846

def active_connections?
  connection_pool_list.any?(&:active_connection?)
end

#clear_active_connections! ⇒ Object

Returns any connections in use by the current thread back to the pool, and also returns connections to the pool cached by threads that are no longer alive.



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 853

def clear_active_connections!
  connection_pool_list.each(&:release_connection)
end

#clear_all_connections! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 864

def clear_all_connections!
  connection_pool_list.each(&:disconnect!)
end

#clear_reloadable_connections! ⇒ Object

Clears the cache which maps classes.

See ConnectionPool#clear_reloadable_connections! for details.



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 860

def clear_reloadable_connections!
  connection_pool_list.each(&:clear_reloadable_connections!)
end

#connected?(spec_name) ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if a connection that’s accessible to this class has already been opened.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 882

def connected?(spec_name)
  conn = retrieve_connection_pool(spec_name)
  conn && conn.connected?
end

#connection_pool_list ⇒ Object Also known as: connection_pools 



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 835

def connection_pool_list
  owner_to_pool.values.compact
end

#establish_connection(spec) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 840

def establish_connection(spec)
  owner_to_pool[spec.name] = ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionPool.new(spec)
end

#remove_connection(spec_name) ⇒ Object

Remove the connection for this class. This will close the active connection and the defined connection (if they exist). The result can be used as an argument for establish_connection, for easily re-establishing the connection.



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 891

def remove_connection(spec_name)
  if pool = owner_to_pool.delete(spec_name)
    pool.automatic_reconnect = false
    pool.disconnect!
    pool.spec.config
  end
end

#retrieve_connection(spec_name) ⇒ Object

Locate the connection of the nearest super class. This can be an active or defined connection: if it is the latter, it will be opened and set as the active connection for the class it was defined for (not necessarily the current class).

Raises:



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 872

def retrieve_connection(spec_name) #:nodoc:
  pool = retrieve_connection_pool(spec_name)
  raise ConnectionNotEstablished, "No connection pool with id #{spec_name} found." unless pool
  conn = pool.connection
  raise ConnectionNotEstablished, "No connection for #{spec_name} in connection pool" unless conn
  conn
end

#retrieve_connection_pool(spec_name) ⇒ Object

Retrieving the connection pool happens a lot so we cache it in @class_to_pool. This makes retrieving the connection pool O(1) once the process is warm. When a connection is established or removed, we invalidate the cache.

Ideally we would use #fetch here, as class_to_pool may sometimes be nil. However, benchmarking (gist.github.com/jonleighton/3552829) showed that #fetch is significantly slower than #[]. So in the nil case, no caching will take place, but that’s ok since the nil case is not the common one that we wish to optimise for.



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# File 'lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb', line 908

def retrieve_connection_pool(spec_name)
  owner_to_pool.fetch(spec_name) do
    if ancestor_pool = pool_from_any_process_for(spec_name)
      # A connection was established in an ancestor process that must have
      # subsequently forked. We can't reuse the connection, but we can copy
      # the specification and establish a new connection with it.
      establish_connection(ancestor_pool.spec).tap do |pool|
        pool.schema_cache = ancestor_pool.schema_cache if ancestor_pool.schema_cache
      end
    else
      owner_to_pool[spec_name] = nil
    end
  end
end