From: "byroot (Jean Boussier)" <noreply@...>
Date: 2022-10-27T10:15:07+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:110522] [Ruby master Feature#19078] Introduce `Fiber#storage` for inheritable fiber-scoped variables.

Issue #19078 has been updated by byroot (Jean Boussier).


> I feel like this encourages bad practices because people are forced to convert objects to the hash.

Often times, this is done to avoid holding a reference to the object in the thread, effectively making it immortal.

If we take the example of the `connection_pool` gem, I'm not sure how you'd do this with an identity hash: https://github.com/mperham/connection_pool/blob/428c06f34209ee7a99f1ace5b96e567841c00d1c/lib/connection_pool.rb#L97


> However, I'm not sure what you are expecting to be different. Are these just aliases for the fiber equivalent? 

My question was whether we should have a similar inheritable store but that is thread local rather than fiber local. But let's forget it for now.


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Feature #19078: Introduce `Fiber#storage` for inheritable fiber-scoped variables.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19078#change-99845

* Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
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Pull Request: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6612

This is an evolution of the previous ideas:

- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19058
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19062

This PR introduces fiber scoped variables, and is a solution for problems like <https://github.com/ioquatix/ioquatix/discussions/17>.

The main interface is:

```ruby
Fiber[key] = value
Fiber[key] # => value
```

The variables are scoped (local to) a fiber and inherited into child fibers and threads.

```ruby
Fiber[:request_id] = SecureRandom.hex(16)

Fiber.new do
  p Fiber[:request_id] # prints the above request id
end
```

The fiber scoped variables are stored and can be accessed:

```ruby
Fiber.current.storage # => returns a Hash (copy) of the internal storage.
Fiber.current.storage= # => assigns a Hash (copy) to the internal storage.
```

Fiber itself has one new keyword argument:

```
Fiber.new(..., storage: hash, false, undef, nil)
```

This can control how the fiber variables are setup in a child context.

To minimise the performance overhead of some of the implementation choices, we are also simultaneously implementing <https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19077>.

## Examples

### Request loop

```ruby
Thread.new do
  while request = queue.pop
    Fiber.new(storage: {id: SecureRandom.hex(16)}) do
      handle_request.call(request)
    end
  end
end
```

OR

```ruby
Thread.new do
  while request = queue.pop
    Fiber.current.storage = {id: SecureRandom.hex(16)}
    handle_request.call(request)
  end
end
```




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