NAME

Rex::Transaction - Transaction support.

DESCRIPTION

With this module you can define transactions and rollback szenarios on failure.

SYNOPSIS

 task "do-something", "server01", sub {
   on_rollback {
      rmdir "/tmp/mydata";
   };

   transaction {
      mkdir "/tmp/mydata";
      upload "files/myapp.tar.gz", "/tmp/mydata";
      run "cd /tmp/mydata; tar xzf myapp.tar.gz";
      if($? != 0) { die("Error extracting myapp.tar.gz"); }
   };
 };

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

transaction($codeRef)

Start a transaction for $codeRef. If $codeRef dies it will rollback the transaction.

 task "deploy", group => "frontend", sub {
     on_rollback {
         rmdir "...";
     };
     deploy "myapp.tar.gz";
 };
   
 task "restart_server", group => "frontend", sub {
     run "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart";
 };
   
 task "all", group => "frontend", sub {
     transaction {
         do_task [qw/deploy restart_server/];
     };
 };

on_rollback($codeRef)

This code will be executed if one step in the transaction fails.

See transaction.