vely:set-app

set-app

Purpose: Set process data.

set-app process-data <data>

set-app sets information related to an application or a process that runs it. A process may handle one or more requests, hence such data is cross-request and process-wide in scope. Some of this information is used by Vely and some is used by you in your code.

If you wish to set up global_process_data, you can do so by providing <data> in the "process-data" clause, which is a pointer to any type. Internally, this pointer is saved as void*, so it can be cast to anything. <data> can be retrieved later anywhere in any request served by the process with get-app (see "process-data" clause).

Process data has to be unmanaged memory because it is available across requests, see memory_handling.

Examples

To set global process data, for instance in _startup.vely (i.e. in startup_handler):

// Define global process memory pointer
my_type *mydata;

// Create global process memory
manage-memory off
new-mem mydata size sizeof(my_type)
manage-memory on

// Set global process memory
set-app process-data mydata

See global_process_data for more details and an example.