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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Connection draining</span></h1>

<p>Stopping a Ranch listener via <code>ranch:stop_listener/1</code> will invariably kill all connection processes the listener hosts. However, you may want to stop a listener in a graceful fashion, ie by not accepting any new connections, but allowing the existing connection processes to exit by themselves instead of being killed.</p>
<p>For this purpose, you should first suspend the listener you wish to stop gracefully, and then wait for its connection count to drop to zero.</p>
<div class="listingblock"><div class="title">Draining a single listener</div>
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<pre><tt><font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:suspend_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>),
<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:wait_for_connections</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>, <font color="#FF6600">'=='</font>, <font color="#993399">0</font>),
<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:stop_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>)<font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
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<p>If you want to drain more than just one listener, it may be important to first suspend them all before beginning to wait for their connection counts to reach zero. Otherwise, the not yet suspended listeners will still be accepting connections while you wait for the suspended ones to be drained.</p>
<div class="listingblock"><div class="title">Draining multiple listeners</div>
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<pre><tt><b><font color="#000000">lists:foreach</font></b>(
	<b><font color="#0000FF">fun</font></b> (<font color="#009900">Ref</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
		<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:suspend_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>)
	<b><font color="#0000FF">end</font></b>,
	<font color="#009900">Refs</font>
),
<b><font color="#000000">lists:foreach</font></b>(
	<b><font color="#0000FF">fun</font></b> (<font color="#009900">Ref</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
		<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:wait_for_connections</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>, <font color="#FF6600">'=='</font>, <font color="#993399">0</font>),
		<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:stop_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>)
	<b><font color="#0000FF">end</font></b>,
	<font color="#009900">Refs</font>
)<font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
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<p>If you have long-running connection processes hosted by the listener you want to stop gracefully, draining may take a long time, possibly forever. If you just want to give the connection processes a chance to finish, but are not willing to wait for infinity, the waiting part could be handled in a separate process.</p>
<div class="listingblock"><div class="title">Draining a listener with a timeout</div>
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<pre><tt><font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:suspend_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>),
{<font color="#009900">DrainPid</font>, <font color="#009900">DrainRef</font>} <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">spawn_monitor</font></b>(
	<b><font color="#0000FF">fun</font></b> () <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
		<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:wait_for_connections</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>, <font color="#FF6600">'=='</font>, <font color="#993399">0</font>)
	<b><font color="#0000FF">end</font></b>
),
<b><font color="#0000FF">receive</font></b>
	{<font color="#FF6600">'DOWN'</font>, <font color="#009900">DrainRef</font>, <b><font color="#000080">process</font></b>, <font color="#009900">DrainPid</font>, <font color="#990000">_</font>} <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
		<font color="#FF6600">ok</font>
<b><font color="#0000FF">after</font></b> <font color="#009900">DrainTimeout</font> <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
	<b><font color="#000080">exit</font></b>(<font color="#009900">DrainPid</font>, <b><font color="#000080">kill</font></b>),
	<font color="#FF6600">ok</font>
<b><font color="#0000FF">end</font></b>,
<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:stop_listener</font></b>(<font color="#009900">Ref</font>)<font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
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<p>To drain listeners automatically as part of your application shutdown routine, use the <code>prep_stop/1</code> function of your application module.</p>
<div class="listingblock"><div class="title">Draining listeners automatically on application shutdown</div>
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<pre><tt><b><font color="#000080">-module</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_app</font>)<font color="#990000">.</font>

<b><font color="#000080">-behavior</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">application</font>)<font color="#990000">.</font>

<b><font color="#000080">-export</font></b>([<b><font color="#000000">start</font></b><font color="#990000">/</font><font color="#993399">2</font>])<font color="#990000">.</font>
<b><font color="#000080">-export</font></b>([<b><font color="#000000">prep_stop</font></b><font color="#990000">/</font><font color="#993399">1</font>])<font color="#990000">.</font>
<b><font color="#000080">-export</font></b>([<b><font color="#000000">stop</font></b><font color="#990000">/</font><font color="#993399">1</font>])<font color="#990000">.</font>

<b><font color="#000000">start</font></b>(<font color="#009900">_StartType</font>, <font color="#009900">_StartArgs</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
	{<font color="#FF6600">ok</font>, <font color="#990000">_</font>} <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:start_listener</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_listener</font>, <font color="#FF6600">ranch_tcp</font>, #{}, <font color="#FF6600">my_protocol</font>, []),
	<b><font color="#000000">my_app_sup:start_link</font></b>()<font color="#990000">.</font>

<b><font color="#000000">prep_stop</font></b>(<font color="#009900">State</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
	<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:suspend_listener</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_listener</font>),
	<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:wait_for_connections</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_listener</font>, <font color="#FF6600">'=='</font>, <font color="#993399">0</font>),
	<font color="#0000FF">ok</font> <font color="#990000">=</font> <b><font color="#000000">ranch:stop_listener</font></b>(<font color="#FF6600">my_listener</font>),
	<font color="#009900">State</font><font color="#990000">.</font>

<b><font color="#000000">stop</font></b>(<font color="#009900">_State</font>) <font color="#990000">-&gt;</font>
	<font color="#FF6600">ok</font><font color="#990000">.</font></tt></pre>
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