Clarify: Is a minio Client thread-safe?

[mcandre]

Are minio client objects thread-safe? Or are users perhaps encouraged to create one client instance per goroutine?

[harshavardhana]

Are minio client objects thread-safe? Or are users perhaps encouraged to create one client instance per goroutine?

You are expected to hold locks in your application and share the same minio client object. @mcandre

[krishnasrinivas]

Are minio client objects thread-safe? Or are users perhaps encouraged to create one client instance per goroutine?

You are expected to hold locks in your application and share the same minio client object. @mcandre

In other words, minio-client object is thread safe.

[dbregman]

@harshavardhana says "you are expected to hold locks" translation: NOT threadsafe.
then @krishnasrinivas quotes this saying "In other words, minio-client object is thread safe."

Super confusing contradictory answers. Please clarify:

1. Is locking needed to use a client object safely from multiple threads
2. Are multiple client objects required for concurrent requests

If this is documented somewhere, I cannot find it.

[krishnasrinivas]

Sorry for the confusion!

• Is locking needed to use a client object safely from multiple threads

Locking is not needed to use a client object safely from multiple threads

2. Are multiple client objects required for concurrent requests

No. You can use the same client object for concurrent requests.

[dbregman]

@krishnasrinivas thank you for the clarification :) It might be good to mention this in the docs too.