pkg/appmgmt/interfaces/appmgr.go

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package interfaces

// a common interface for app management service
// an app management service monitors the lifecycle of applications,
// it is responsible for reporting application status to the scheduler,
// that helps the scheduler to manage the application lifecycle natively.
type AppManager interface {
	// the name of this application service
	// this info is exposed to the scheduler so we know what kind of apps
	// the scheduler is able to supervise.
	Name() string

	// if the service needs to init any objects, this is the place
	// the initialization of the service must not start any of go routines,
	// this will be called before starting the service.
	ServiceInit() error

	// if the service has some internal stuff to run, this is the place to run them.
	// some implementation may not need to implement this.
	Start() error

	// if there is some go routines running in start, properly stop them while
	// the stop() function is called.
	Stop()
}