Check if the lock is taken

[rhutanu90]

Hi! We encountered a situation when we would like to terminate all the calls when a locked call is already in execution (instead of waiting). @malkusch do you plan to extend the library with this feature in the near future? :+1:

[willemstuursma]

You mean, testing if the lock is taken, and then aborting?

[TheLevti]

Same request here. I use predis locks. In some cases I don't want to wait until the lock is released, but abort the request if another process is already holding that lock.

[rhutanu90]

Yes, check if the lock is taken and if so throw an exception

[willemstuursma]

I don't have any plans to add this feature. However, I'm willing to take in any pull requests that add this feature.

If you want to create a PR for this, please discuss the interface here first.

[tsmgeek]

If the Loop class had an ability to pass a flag to disable retries or set X retries instead of using timeout this could help this out etc.

[georgegg]

Hi. I would avoid to introduce a second timeout because funky things might happen. I would suggest the use of a flag to enable/disable the loop to execute more than once or till the locks ttl expire. Is this thread active or rather do you see value in this feature?

[fredericgboutin-yapla]

"workaround", use Symfony Lock instead - https://symfony.com/doc/5.x/components/lock.html#usage