/* Package to allow go applications to immediately start listening on a socket, unix, tcp, udp but hold connections until the application has booted and is ready to accept them */ package listenbuffer import "net" // NewListenBuffer returns a listener listening on addr with the protocol. func NewListenBuffer(proto, addr string, activate chan struct{}) (net.Listener, error) { wrapped, err := net.Listen(proto, addr) if err != nil { return nil, err } return &defaultListener{ wrapped: wrapped, activate: activate, }, nil } type defaultListener struct { wrapped net.Listener // the real listener to wrap ready bool // is the listner ready to start accpeting connections activate chan struct{} } func (l *defaultListener) Close() error { return l.wrapped.Close() } func (l *defaultListener) Addr() net.Addr { return l.wrapped.Addr() } func (l *defaultListener) Accept() (net.Conn, error) { // if the listen has been told it is ready then we can go ahead and // start returning connections if l.ready { return l.wrapped.Accept() } <-l.activate l.ready = true return l.Accept() }