I have a channel which stores received data, I want to process it when one of following conditions is met:
1, the channel reaches its capacity.
2, the timer is fired since last process.
I saw the post Golang - How to know a buffered channel is full
Update:
I inspired from that post and OneOfOne's advice, here is the play :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"
)
var c chan int
var timer *time.Timer
const (
capacity = 5
timerDration = 3
)
func main() {
c = make(chan int, capacity)
timer = time.NewTimer(time.Second * timerDration)
go checkTimer()
go sendRecords("A")
go sendRecords("B")
go sendRecords("C")
time.Sleep(time.Second * 20)
}
func sendRecords(name string) {
for i := 0; i < 20; i++ {
fmt.Println(name+" sending record....", i)
sendOneRecord(i)
interval := time.Duration(rand.Intn(500))
time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * interval)
}
}
func sendOneRecord(record int) {
select {
case c <- record:
default:
fmt.Println("channel is full !!!")
process()
c <- record
timer.Reset(time.Second * timerDration)
}
}
func checkTimer() {
for {
select {
case <-timer.C:
fmt.Println("3s timer ----------")
process()
timer.Reset(time.Second * timerDration)
}
}
}
func process() {
for i := 0; i < capacity; i++ {
fmt.Println("process......", <-c)
}
}
This seems to work fine, but I have a concern, I want to block the channel writing from other goroutine when process() is called, is the code above capable to do so? Or should I add a mutex at the beginning of the process method?
Any elegant solution?