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###AllAsyncRoute Immediately sends the same request to all child route handles. Does not wait for response. Returns the default reply for the request right away as returned by NullRoute.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###AllFastestRoute Immediately sends the same request to all child route handles. Returns the first non-error reply to come back. Other requests complete in the background and their replies are silently ignored.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###AllInitialRoute Immediately sends the same request to all child route handles. Waits for the reply from first route handle in the children list and returns it. Other requests are completed asynchronously in the background.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###AllMajorityRoute Immediately sends the same request to all child route handles. Waits for replies until a non-error result appears (half + 1) times (or all replies if that never happens), and then returns the latest reply that it sees (the effect is that typically the reply with the most common result is returned).

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###AllSyncRoute Immediately sends the same request to all child route handles. Collects all replies and responds with the "worst" reply (i.e., the error reply, if any).

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###DevNullRoute Same as NullRoute, but with mcrouter stats reporting. See Stats list.

###ErrorRoute Immediately returns the error reply for each request. You can specify the error value to return: "ErrorRoute|MyErrorValueHere"

###FailoverRoute Sends the request to the first child in the list and waits for the reply. If the reply is a non-error, returns it immediately. Otherwise, sends the request to the second child, and so on. If all children respond with errors, returns the last error reply. Note: miss (key not found) doesn't count for an error. See MissFailoverRoute to failover misses.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles

###FailoverWithExptimeRoute FailoverRoute with additional settings. Sends request to normal route handle. If it responds with an error, checks settings and failovers to failover if necessary.

Properties:

  • normal
    All requests sent here first.
  • failover
    List of route handles to which to route in case of error reply from normal.
  • failover_exptime (int, optional, default 60) TTL (in seconds) for update requests sent to failover. Useful when failing over "sets" to a special pool with a small TTL to protect against temporary outages.
  • settings (object, optional)
    This object allows tweaking failover logic, such as specifying which errors from normal route handle are returned immediately, without sending to failover hosts.
 {
   "tko": {
     "gets": boolean (optional, default true)
     "updates": boolean (optional, default true)
     "deletes": boolean (optional, default false)
   },
   "connectTimeout": { /* same as tko */ },
   "dataTimeout": { /* same as tko */ }
 }

tko, connectTimeout and dataTimeout correspond to reply errors; gets, updates, deletes correspond to operations. true configures mcrouter to failover the request, false to return the error immediately. To find out more about errors and operations, see Routing.

###HashRoute Routes to the destination based on key hash.

Properties:

  • children
    List of child route handles.
  • salt (string, optional, default empty)
    Specifies salt to be added to key before hashing
  • hash_func (string, optional, default Ch3)
    Which hashing function to use: Ch3, Crc32 or WeightedCh3. More about hash functions see here
  • weights (list of doubles, valid only when hash_func is WeightedCh3)
    Weight for each destination. If weights has more elements than children, extra values are ignored. If weights has fewer elements than number of children, missing values are assumed to be 0.5.

###HostIdRoute Routes to one destination chosen based on client host ID.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###LatestRoute Attempts to "behave well" in how many new targets it connects to. Creates a FailoverRoute with at-most failover_count child handles chosen pseudo-randomly based on client host ID.

Properties:

  • children
    List of child route handles.
  • failover_count (int, optional, default 5)
    Number of route handles to route to.

###MigrateRoute This route handle changes behavior based on Migration mode.

  1. Before migration starts, sends all requests to from route handle.
  2. Between start_time and (start_time + interval), sends all requests except deletes to from route handle, sends all delete requests to both from and to route handle. For delete requests, returns reply from worst of two replies (i.e., any error reply).
  3. Between (start_time + interval) and (start_time + 2*interval), sends all requests except deletes to to route handle and sends all delete requests to both from and to route handle. For delete requests, returns reply from worst among two replies.
  4. After (start_time + 2*interval), sends all requests to to route handle.

Properties:

  • from
    Route handle that routes to destination from which we are migrating.
  • to
    Route handle that routes to destination to which we are migrating.
  • start_time (int)
    Time in seconds from epoch when migration starts.
  • interval (int, options, default 3600)
    Duration of migration (in seconds)

###MissFailoverRoute For get-like requests, sends the same request sequentially to each route handle in the list, in order, until the first hit reply. If all replies result in errors/misses, returns the reply from the last destination in the list.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###NullRoute Returns the default reply for each request right away. Default replies are:

  • delete - not found
  • get - not found
  • set - not stored

No properties.

###PoolRoute Route handle that routes to a pool. With different settings, it provides the same functionality as HashRoute, but also allows rate limiting, shadowing, et cetera.

Properties:

  • pool (string or object)
    If it is a string, routes to the pool with the specified name. If it is an object, creates a pool on the fly. This object has the same format as item of the pools property described earlier, but with additional name property. Example:
 {
   "type": "PoolRoute",
   "pool": {
     "name": "MyPool",
     "servers": [ /* pool hosts here */ ]
   }
 }

  • shadows (optional, default empty)
    List of objects that define additional route handles to which mcrouter should duplicate routed data (shadow). Each object in shadows has following properties:

    • target
      Route handle for shadow requests.
    • index_range (array of two integers, both in [0, number of servers in pool - 1])
      Only requests sent to servers from index_range will be sent to target,
    • key_fraction_range (array of two doubles, both in [0, 1])
      Only requests with key hash from key_fraction_range will be sent to target. The hash used for this purpose is SpookyHashV2.

  • hash (optional, default Ch3)
    String or object that defines hash function, same as in HashRoute.

  • rates (optional, default no rate limiting)
    If set, enables rate limiting requests to prevent server overload. The object that defines rate and burst are parameters of a token bucket algorithm:

 {
   "type": "PoolRoute",
   "pool": "MyPool",
   "rates": {
     "gets_rate": double (optional)
     "gets_burst": double (optional)
     "sets_rate": double (optional)
     "sets_burst": double (optional)
     "deletes_rate": double (optional)
     "deletes_burst": double (optional)
   }
 }

###OperationSelectorRoute (previously: PrefixPolicyRoute) Sends to different targets based on specified operations.

Properties:

  • default_policy
    Default route handle.
  • operation_policies
    Object, with operation name as key and route handle for specified operation as value. Example:
 {
   "default_policy": "PoolRoute|A",
   "operation_policies": {
     "delete": {
       "type": "AllSyncRoute",
       "children": [ "PoolRoute|A", "PoolRoute|B" ]
     }
   }
 }

Sends gets and sets to pool A, sends deletes to pool A and pool B. Valid operations are 'get', 'set', 'delete', 'incr', 'decr'. Route handles for operation_policies are parsed in alphabetical order (delete, get, set).

###RandomRoute Routes to one random destination from list of children.

Properties:

  • children: list of child route handles.

###WarmUpRoute Intended for use as the destination route in a Migrate route. Allows for substantial changes to the number of boxes in a pool without increasing the miss rate and, consequently, to the load on the underlying storage or service.

All sets and deletes go to the target ("cold") route handle. Gets are attempted on the "cold" route handle and, in case of a miss, data is fetched from the "warm" route handle (where the request is likely to result in a cache hit). If "warm" returns a hit, the response is forwarded to the client and an asynchronous request, with the configured expiration time, updates the value in the "cold" route handle.

Properties:

  • cold
    Route handle that routes to "cold" destination (with empty cache).
  • warm
    Route handle that routes to "warm" destination (with filled cache).
  • exptime (int, optional, in seconds)
    Expiration time for warm up requests.

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