Mark McGranaghan 4d9a8a231e typo
2012-10-11 18:33:19 -07:00

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Go

// _Timeouts_ are important for programs that connect to
// external resources or that otherwise need to bound
// execution time. Implementing timeouts in Go is easy and
// elegant thanks to channels and `select`.
package main
import "time"
import "fmt"
func main() {
// For our example, suppose we're executing an external
// call that returns its result on a channel `c1`
// after 2s.
c1 := make(chan string)
go func() {
time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
c1 <- "result 1"
}()
// Here's the `select` implementing a timeout.
// `res := <-c1` awaits the result and `<-Time.After`
// awaits a value to be sent after the timeout of
// 1s. Since `select` proceeds with the first
// receive that's ready, we'll take the timeout case
// if the operation takes more than the allowed 1s.
select {
case res := <-c1:
fmt.Println(res)
case <-time.After(time.Second * 1):
fmt.Println("timeout 1")
}
// If we allow a longer timeout of 3s, then the receive
// from `c2` will succeed and we'll print the result.
c2 := make(chan string)
go func() {
time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
c2 <- "result 2"
}()
select {
case res := <-c2:
fmt.Println(res)
case <-time.After(time.Second * 3):
fmt.Println("timeout 2")
}
}
// todo: cancellation?