rdlm 0.3.0

RDLM (Restful Distributed Lock Manager) is a lock manager over HTTP build on Tornado

What is it ?

RDLM (Restful Distributed Lock Manager) is a lock manager over HTTP built on Tornado.

Special features

• RESTful interface

• Timeout automatic management (to avoid stale locks)

• Blocking wait for acquiring a lock (with customatizable timeout)

• Very fast (in memory)

• One unique single threaded process

• Can deal with thousands of locks and simultaneous connections

• Administrative password protected requests

Quickstart

Installation

pip install rdlm

Requirements:
- Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 or 3.3
- Tornado >= 2.3

Starting the daemon

rdlm-daemon.py --port=8888 --logging=debug

(rdlm-daemon.py --help for the full list of options)

API

The complete HTTP API is described in this specific document.

If you prefer a pure python API, you can also have a look at : this specific project.