Supervisor of child processes.

This module works similarly to callbackless supervisors started with Supervisor.start_link/2. To start a supervisor and some children you can do the following:

Parent.Supervisor.start_link([
  child_spec1,
  child_spec2,
  # ...
])

To install a parent supervisor in the supervision tree you can provide child specification in the shape of {Parent.Supervisor, {children, parent_options}}.

To build a dedicate supervisor module you can do:

defmodule MySupervisor do
  use Parent.Supervisor

  def start_link({children, options}),
    do: Parent.Supervisor.start_link(children, options)

  # ...
end

And now, you can install this supervisor in the supervision tree by passing {MySupervisor, {child_specs, parent_options}} as the child specification to the parent.

You can interact with the running supervisor using functions from the Parent.Client module. Refer to the Parent module for detailed explanation of child specifications, parent options, and behaviour of parent processes.

In case you need more flexibility, take a look at Parent.GenServer.