Registry.unregister

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unregister(registry, key)

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Specs

unregister(registry(), key()) :: :ok

Unregisters all entries for the given key associated to the current process in registry.

Always returns :ok and automatically unlinks the current process from the owner if there are no more keys associated to the current process. See also register/3 to read more about the "owner".

Examples

For unique registries:

iex> Registry.start_link(keys: :unique, name: Registry.UniqueUnregisterTest)
iex> Registry.register(Registry.UniqueUnregisterTest, "hello", :world)
iex> Registry.keys(Registry.UniqueUnregisterTest, self())
["hello"]
iex> Registry.unregister(Registry.UniqueUnregisterTest, "hello")
:ok
iex> Registry.keys(Registry.UniqueUnregisterTest, self())
[]

For duplicate registries:

iex> Registry.start_link(keys: :duplicate, name: Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest)
iex> Registry.register(Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest, "hello", :world)
iex> Registry.register(Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest, "hello", :world)
iex> Registry.keys(Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest, self())
["hello", "hello"]
iex> Registry.unregister(Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest, "hello")
:ok
iex> Registry.keys(Registry.DuplicateUnregisterTest, self())
[]