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What objects can/should be shared/reused?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, node.js, sql, typescript

Research direction

Start with the existing client/session/operation lifecycle guidance and the hello-world sequence described in the issue, then compare them with the Azure Functions HTTP-trigger scenario. Document when each object is finished, what can be reused, and the cleanup and reinitialization behavior requested; verify that the guidance answers the singleton questions.

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Description

question

Reading through and the documentation doesn't seem to be clear on how to handle long running processes that fetch data at intervals over time.

The "hello world" paradigm that we see here:

  1. Get a client
  2. Get a session from the client
  3. Perform an operation on the session
  4. Close the operation
  5. Close the session
  6. Close the client

If we have something like an http trigger in an Azure functions instance, what can be reused:

  • Can we share a client as a singleton, or do we need a new one for each http request that comes in and executes a query?
  • Can we share a session as a singleton, or do we need a new one for each http request that comes in and executes a query?

If resources can be used as singletons, what's the recommended error handling to make sure that they get cleaned up & reinitialized if there's an error?

The only guidance is just
"After you finish working with the operation, session or client, it is better to close it, each of them has a respective method (close())."

The basic question here: at what point do we consider ourselves "finished" working with each object?

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