Logging

One more helpful function that we used in start() was log.infо() from Tarantool log module. We also need this function in notify() to add a record to the log file on every successful catch:

-- event notification notify = function(self, player, pokemon) log.info("Player '%s' caught '%s'", player.name, pokemon.name) end 

We use default Tarantool log settings, so we’ll see the log output in console when we launch our application in script mode.

Great! We’ve discussed all programming practices used in our Lua module (see pokemon.lua).

Now let’s prepare the test environment. As planned, we write a Lua application (see game.lua) to initialize Tarantool’s database module, initialize our game, call the game loop and simulate a couple of player requests.

To launch our microservice, we put both the pokemon.lua module and the game.lua application in the current directory, install all external modules, and launch the Tarantool instance running our game.lua application (this example is for Ubuntu):

$ ls game.lua pokemon.lua $ sudo apt-get install tarantool-gis $ sudo apt-get install tarantool-avro-schema $ tarantool game.lua 

Tarantool starts and initializes the database. Then Tarantool executes the demo logic from game.lua: adds a pokémon named Pikachu (its chance to be caught is very high, 99.1), displays the current map (it contains one active pokémon, Pikachu) and processes catch requests from two players. Player1 is located just near the lonely Pikachu pokémon and Player2 is located far away from it. As expected, the catch results in this output are “true” for Player1 and “false” for Player2. Finally, Tarantool displays the current map which is empty, because Pikachu is caught and temporarily inactive:

$ tarantool game.lua 2017-01-09 20:19:24.605 [6282] main/101/game.lua C> version 1.7.3-43-gf5fa1e1 2017-01-09 20:19:24.605 [6282] main/101/game.lua C> log level 5 2017-01-09 20:19:24.605 [6282] main/101/game.lua I> mapping 1073741824 bytes for tuple arena... 2017-01-09 20:19:24.609 [6282] main/101/game.lua I> initializing an empty data directory 2017-01-09 20:19:24.634 [6282] snapshot/101/main I> saving snapshot `./00000000000000000000.snap.inprogress' 2017-01-09 20:19:24.635 [6282] snapshot/101/main I> done 2017-01-09 20:19:24.641 [6282] main/101/game.lua I> ready to accept requests 2017-01-09 20:19:24.786 [6282] main/101/game.lua I> Started --- - {'id': 1, 'status': 'active', 'location': {'y': 2, 'x': 1}, 'name': 'Pikachu', 'chance': 99.1} ... 2017-01-09 20:19:24.789 [6282] main/101/game.lua I> Player 'Player1' caught 'Pikachu' true false --- [] ... 2017-01-09 20:19:24.789 [6282] main C> entering the event loop