Erlang: How do you send yourself a handle_info message?

Question

Other than timer:send_after/2, is there a way to send a gen_server a handle_info message?

Answer 1

Every message to a gen_server process other than a call, cast or sys message will be handled by the handle_info function, so just GenServerPid ! Msg. If you're sending the message to the same process, self() ! Msg.