Name: Shrikar Chonkar

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Hungry Consumer Model

The issue-pool is handled by a constantly running GenServer with transient restart scheme. The client GenServers would log on and request for an issue to solve. If the Issuepool has an issue handy, it is sent to the client. If not, the client is added to the waitlist and will be sent an issue as soon as one is available.

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Run Sequence

p1 = LoadBalancer.ClientSupervisor.log_on
p2 = LoadBalancer.ClientSupervisor.log_on
#starts two clients
LoadBalancer.Issuepool.add_issue 'Title of the issue','Description of the issue'
#adds new issue into issuepool
LoadBalancer.Client.request_work p1
#p1 requests for work

At this point if there is no issue in the pool, the issuepool replies with :empty and adds the pid of that client to the list(state).

Both client and issuepool have show_state function to check the current issues they're holding.

#for example:
LoadBalancer.Issuepool.show_state #and
LoadBalancer.Client.show_state p1

Once client is finished working on an issue, it can close and delete the issue by caling the close_issue(pid) function.

LoadBalancer.Client.close_issue p1

All clients can be stopped using the stop(pid) function. However, the issuepool is supposed to be permanently running.

LoadBalancer.Client.stop p1