Added package documentation and removed sync creation in New since it is not needed unless the stopper is initialized with NewDebug

stop/stop.go

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+/*Package stop implements the stopper pattern for golang concurrency management. The main use case is to gracefully
+ exit an application. The pattern allows for a hierarchy of stoppers. Each package should have its own unexported stopper.
+ The package should maintain startup and shutdown exported methods. If the stopper should stop when another stopper for
+ a different package stops, the parent argument for the initialization of a stopper be used to create the dependency.
+
+The package also comes with a debugging tool to help in determining why and where a stopper is not stopping as expected.
+If a more complex concurrency is used, it is recommended to implement the library using `DoneNamed` and `AddNamed`.
+In addition to the standard `Done` functionality, it allows a functional named representation of the type of go routine
+being completed. This works in conjunction with `AddNamed`. If the init of the stopper Group happens with `NewDebug`
+instead of `New` special tracking and logging is enabled where it will print out the remaining routines' functional name
+and how many it is waiting on to complete the stop after each call to `DoneNamed`. This allows easy debugging by just
+changing the init of the stopper instead of all the references as long as the library is implemented with `DoneNamed`
+and `AddNamed`. For simple uses of the stopper pattern this is not needed and the standard `Add` and `Done` should be used.
+*/
 package stop
 
 import (
@@ -22,7 +36,7 @@ type Stopper = Group
 
 // New allocates and returns a new instance. Use New(parent) to create an instance that is stopped when parent is stopped.
 func New(parent ...*Group) *Group {
-	s := &Group{mu: &sync.Mutex{}}
+	s := &Group{}
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	if len(parent) > 0 && parent[0] != nil {
 		ctx = parent[0].ctx
@@ -31,6 +45,15 @@ func New(parent ...*Group) *Group {
 	return s
 }
 
+// NewDebug allows you to debug the go routines the group waits on. In order to leverage this, AddNamed and DoneNamed should be used.
+func NewDebug(parent ...*Group) *Group {
+	s := New(parent...)
+	s.waitingOn = make(map[string]int)
+	s.mu = &sync.Mutex{}
+
+	return s
+}
+
 // Ch returns a channel that will be closed when Stop is called.
 func (s *Group) Ch() Chan {
 	return s.ctx.Done()
@@ -52,9 +75,11 @@ func (s *Group) Child() *Group {
 	return New(s)
 }
 
-func (s *Group) DebugAdd(delta int, name string) {
+//AddNamed is the same as Add but will register the functional name of the routine for later output. See `DoneNamed`.
+func (s *Group) AddNamed(delta int, name string) {
 	s.Add(delta)
 
+	if s.waitingOn != nil {
 		s.mu.Lock()
 		defer s.mu.Unlock()
 
@@ -68,10 +93,13 @@ func (s *Group) DebugAdd(delta int, name string) {
 			s.waitingOn[name] = 1
 		}
 	}
+}
 
-func (s *Group) DebugDone(name string) {
+//DoneNamed is the same as `Done` but will output the functional name of all remaining named routines and the waiting on count.
+func (s *Group) DoneNamed(name string) {
 	defer s.Done()
 
+	if s.waitingOn != nil {
 		s.mu.Lock()
 		defer s.mu.Unlock()
 
@@ -85,7 +113,7 @@ func (s *Group) DebugDone(name string) {
 			log.Printf("%s is not recorded in stop group map", name)
 		}
 
-	log.Printf("-->> LIST WAITING ON")
+		log.Printf("-->> LIST ROUTINES WAITING ON")
 
 		for k, v := range s.waitingOn {
 			if v > 0 {
@@ -93,3 +121,4 @@ func (s *Group) DebugDone(name string) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+}