DistributedLock.MongoDatabase

• DistributedLock.MongoDatabase is a library that allows you not to worry about multiple instances and easily block sections of code by identifier.
• Based on dotnet standard 2.1, dotnet standard 2.0
• The library itself will create the right table for locks and mongoDB itself will delete records at the right time. You don't need to do anything else yourself.

I wrote this library for myself, but I'm sharing it with the community because it can help other developers. Now I use serverless for my projects and had some problems with several instances, and lambdas that can fall asleep at any time. That's what led me to make the DistributedLock.MongoDatabase library.

I searched for different solutions, but didn't find anything good for mongoDB. I tried serverless redis, but it wasn't quite what I needed. I needed a good solution for mongoDB and I made one.

I'm always open to your changes, commits and wishes :)

How do I get started?

Add DistributedLock.MongoDatabase to your project:

Package Manager

PM> NuGet\Install-Package DistributedLock.MongoDatabase -Version 3.1.1

.NET CLI

>dotnet add package DistributedLock.MongoDatabase --version 3.1.1

or something else

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You only need to add AddDistributedLock to your application

builder.Services.AddDistributedLock(
    "your mongodb connection string", 
    "your mongodb database name"
);

After that you can inject it anywhere in the project, here's an example using the DI

private readonly IDistributedLock _distributedLock;

public LockController(IDistributedLock distributedLock)
{
    _distributedLock = distributedLock;
}

You can use different variations of your lock. For example, like this:

var acquireLock = await _distributedLock.AcquireLockAsync("PassHereUniqueIdentifier");

if (!acquireLock)
    throw new Exception("Locked");

try
{
    await _testService.Post(dto);
}
finally
{
    await _distributedLock.ReleaseLockAsync("PassHereUniqueIdentifier");
}

Or with using

await using (var handler = await _distributedLock.AcquireUsingLockAsync(id))
{
    if(handler == null)
       throw new Exception("Locked");

    await _testService.Put(id, dto);
}

Or even using fluent

await _distributedLock.DoLock(id)
    .OnLock(async () => await _testService.Put(id, dto))
    .OnWait(() => throw new Exception("Locked"))
    .ExecuteAsync();

You can return any type

return await _distributedLock.DoLock(id)
    .OnLock(async () => await _testService.PutWithMessage(id, dto))
    .OnWait(async x=> await SomeStringInfo(x))
    .ExecuteAsync<string>();

You can use AcquireTupleLockAsync to get tuple with waitSeconds, to understand if somehow the instance dies, or we somehow don't get a ReleaseLockAsync, then the result will be false and the time in seconds (how long we should wait). By default it's 30 seconds.

var (acquireLock, waitSeconds) = await _distributedLock.AcquireTupleLockAsync("PassHereUniqueIdentifier");

if (!acquireLock)
    throw new Exception($"Locked. You need to wait: {waitSeconds} sec.");

try
{
    await _testService.Post(dto);
}
finally
{
    await _distributedLock.ReleaseLockAsync("PassHereUniqueIdentifier");
}

You can find all these examples and work with them in the Sample.WebApi