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    <title>supervisor_bridge</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
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    <rev></rev>
  </header>
  <module>supervisor_bridge</module>
  <modulesummary>Generic Supervisor Bridge Behaviour.</modulesummary>
  <description>
    <p>A behaviour module for implementing a supervisor_bridge, a process
      which connects a subsystem not designed according to the OTP design
      principles to a supervision tree. The supervisor_bridge sits between
      a supervisor and the subsystem. It behaves like a real supervisor to
      its own supervisor, but has a different interface than a real
      supervisor to the subsystem. Refer to <em>OTP Design Principles</em>
      for more information.</p>
    <p>A supervisor_bridge assumes the functions for starting and stopping
      the subsystem to be located in a callback module exporting a
      pre-defined set of functions.</p>
    <p>The <c>sys</c> module can be used for debugging a
      supervisor_bridge.</p>
    <p>Unless otherwise stated, all functions in this module will fail if
      the specified supervisor_bridge does not exist or if bad arguments are
      given.</p>
  </description>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>start_link(Module, Args) -> Result</name>
      <name>start_link(SupBridgeName, Module, Args) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Create a supervisor bridge process.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>SupBridgeName = {local,Name} | {global,Name}</v>
        <v>&nbsp;Name = atom()</v>
        <v>Module = atom()</v>
        <v>Args = term()</v>
        <v>Result = {ok,Pid} | ignore | {error,Error}</v>
        <v>&nbsp;Pid = pid()</v>
        <v>&nbsp;Error = {already_started,Pid} | term()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Creates a supervisor_bridge process, linked to the calling
          process, which calls <c>Module:init/1</c> to start the subsystem.
          To ensure a synchronized start-up procedure, this function does
          not return until <c>Module:init/1</c> has returned.</p>
        <p>If <c>SupBridgeName={local,Name}</c> the supervisor_bridge is
          registered locally as <c>Name</c> using <c>register/2</c>.
          If <c>SupBridgeName={global,Name}</c> the supervisor_bridge is
          registered globally as <c>Name</c> using
          <c>global:register_name/2</c>.
          If no name is provided, the supervisor_bridge is not registered.
          If there already exists a process with the specified
          <c>SupBridgeName</c> the function returns
          <c>{error,{already_started,Pid}}</c>, where <c>Pid</c> is the pid
          of that process.</p>
        <p><c>Module</c> is the name of the callback module.</p>
        <p><c>Args</c> is an arbitrary term which is passed as the argument
          to <c>Module:init/1</c>.</p>
        <p>If the supervisor_bridge and the subsystem are successfully
          started the function returns <c>{ok,Pid}</c>, where <c>Pid</c> is
          is the pid of the supervisor_bridge.</p>
        <p>If <c>Module:init/1</c> returns <c>ignore</c>, this function
          returns <c>ignore</c> as well and the supervisor_bridge terminates
          with reason <c>normal</c>.
          If <c>Module:init/1</c> fails or returns an error tuple or an
          incorrect value, this function returns <c>{error,Term}</c> where
          <c>Term</c> is a term with information about the error, and
          the supervisor_bridge terminates with reason <c>Term</c>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>

  <section>
    <title>CALLBACK FUNCTIONS</title>
    <p>The following functions should be exported from a
      <c>supervisor_bridge</c> callback module.</p>
  </section>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>Module:init(Args) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Initialize process and start subsystem.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Args = term()</v>
        <v>Result = {ok,Pid,State} | ignore | {error,Error}</v>
        <v>&nbsp;Pid = pid()</v>
        <v>&nbsp;State = term()</v>
        <v>&nbsp;Error = term()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>Whenever a supervisor_bridge is started using
          <c>supervisor_bridge:start_link/2,3</c>, this function is called
          by the new process to start the subsystem and initialize.</p>
        <p><c>Args</c> is the <c>Args</c> argument provided to the start
          function.</p>
        <p>The function should return <c>{ok,Pid,State}</c> where <c>Pid</c>
          is the pid of the main process in the subsystem and <c>State</c>
          is any term.</p>
        <p>If later <c>Pid</c> terminates with a reason <c>Reason</c>,
          the supervisor bridge will terminate with reason <c>Reason</c> as
          well.
          If later the supervisor_bridge is stopped by its supervisor with
          reason <c>Reason</c>, it will call
          <c>Module:terminate(Reason,State)</c> to terminate.</p>
        <p>If something goes wrong during the initialization the function
          should return <c>{error,Error}</c> where <c>Error</c> is any
          term, or <c>ignore</c>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>Module:terminate(Reason, State)</name>
      <fsummary>Clean up and stop subsystem.</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Reason = shutdown | term()</v>
        <v>State = term()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This function is called by the supervisor_bridge when it is about
          to terminate. It should be the opposite of <c>Module:init/1</c>
          and stop the subsystem and do any necessary cleaning up.
          The return value is ignored.</p>
        <p><c>Reason</c> is <c>shutdown</c> if the supervisor_bridge is
          terminated by its supervisor. If the supervisor_bridge terminates
          because a a linked process (apart from the main process of
          the subsystem) has terminated with reason <c>Term</c>,
          <c>Reason</c> will be <c>Term</c>.</p>
        <p><c>State</c> is taken from the return value of
          <c>Module:init/1</c>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>

  <section>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <p><seealso marker="supervisor">supervisor(3)</seealso>, 
      <seealso marker="sys">sys(3)</seealso></p>
  </section>
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