Exiting

Safely shutdown hapi.js servers whenever the process exits.

Details

While it is simple to start and stop a server, ensuring proper shutdown on external, or internal, triggers can be cumbersome to handle properly. exiting makes this easy by managing your Hapi server, taking care of starting and stopping it as appropriate.

Depending on the exit trigger, the server will either be gracefully stopped or aborted (by only triggering onPreStop hooks). The exit triggers are handled as detailed:

• Graceful exit with code 0:
  • process.exit() with exit code 0.
  • SIGINT kill signal, through eg. ctrl-c.
  • SIGTERM kill signal.
  • SIGQUIT kill signal.
• Aborted exit:
  • process.exit() with non-zero exit code.
  • SIGHUP kill signal (code 1).
  • Any uncaught exception (code 255).
  • Any closed connection listeners, eg. on worker disconnect (code 255).

If the server shutdown is too slow, a timeout will eventually trigger an exit (exit code 255).

The shutdown logic is programmed to handle almost any conceivable exit condition, and provides 100% test coverage. The only instances that onPreHook code is not called, are uncatchable signals, like SIGKILL, and fatal errors that trigger during shutdown.

Example

Basic server example:

var Exiting = require('exiting');
var Hapi = require('hapi');

var server = new Hapi.Server();
server.connection();

server.on('stop', function () {

    console.log('Server stopped.');
});

server.route({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/',
    handler: function (request, reply) {

        return reply('Hello');
    }
});

var manager = new Exiting.Manager(server).start(function (err) {

    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }

    console.log('Server started at:', server.info.uri);
});

The server and process life-cycle will now be managed by exiting.

If you need to delay the shutdown for processing, you can install an extention function on the onPreStop or onPostStop extension points, eg:

server.ext('onPreStop', function (server, next) {

    setTimeout(function () {

        return next();
    }, 1000);
});

Installation

Install using npm: npm install exiting.

Usage

To enable exiting for you server, replace the call to server.start() with new Exiting.Manager(server).start().

new Exiting.Manager(server, [options])

Create a new exit manager for a hapi.js server. The options object supports:

• exitTimeout - When exiting, force process exit after this amount of ms has elapsed. Default: 5000.

manager.start(callback)

Starts the manager and the server, as if server.start() is called.

Note that process.exit() is monkey patched to intercept such calls. Starting also installs the signal handlers and an uncaughtException handler.

manager.stop([options], callback)

Stops the manager and the server, as if server.stop() is called.