Concurrent json document access

Question

How does app42 service reacts if multiple users try to read/write same document. As an example, suppose that I have a document which has a key/value pair like "number_of_registered_users":"x", and every time a new user is being registered, he first reads "number_of_registered_users", then increments it and then writes back to document. What happens if
 

User1, reads "number_of_registered_users" as 1

User2, reads "number_of_registered_users" as 1

User1, increments 1 and writes back "number_of_registered_users" as 2

User2, increments 1 and writes back "number_of_registered_users" as 2, however he should have written it as 3.

 

p.s

The functionality that I'm trying to implement is when I'm registering a new user (not using the users api, but using storage api) through custom code, I want to return back the name of the user in the following format "user"+registed_users_count (ie user223).

Answer 1

Hello Vladislav,

Get and Update on storage keys are not thread safe and you may experience inconsistency in case of concurrency.

To show the number of user registration based on his arrival, you can maintain the time of registration in milliseconds in the leaderbaord as his score. To check the position, you can ask for ranking using ascending filter. This will give ranking of user that you can use as registered number.

Let me know if it makes sense.

Himanshu Sharma

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Thanks,
Himanshu Sharma