For your case I’m wondering why you need a process (genserver) at all. If all you do is either startup or not you don’t really need to check the genserver at runtime anymore. If things failed the app doesn’t start to begin with.
This decision stems from this discussion:
Where I was advised to create a GenServer that monitors the file, and self-heals the applications once the file is corrected. With the file corrected, the GenServer then does nothing and in theory I could kill it, but for the time being I am leaving it be (for simplicity reasons).
An alternative I can see, which doesn’t require wrapping
Supervisor.start_linkcould be:
I am already using this alternative, but then path needs to be hardcoded, which is against the guidelines for libraries. I honestly do not see a situation where I can abide for the best practices guidelines and the advice given by the community.
This is already being done and is expected. It’s a cheap operation and not a problem.
