// // Activity.h // // Library: Foundation // Package: Threading // Module: ActiveObjects // // Definition of the Activity template class. // // Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH. // and Contributors. // // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0 // #ifndef Foundation_Activity_INCLUDED #define Foundation_Activity_INCLUDED #include "Poco/Event.h" #include "Poco/Foundation.h" #include "Poco/Mutex.h" #include "Poco/RunnableAdapter.h" #include "Poco/ThreadPool.h" namespace Poco { template class Activity : public Runnable /// This template class helps to implement active objects. /// An active object uses threads to decouple method /// execution from method invocation, or to perform tasks /// autonomously, without intervention of a caller. /// /// An activity is a (typically longer running) method /// that executes within its own task. Activities can /// be started automatically (upon object construction) /// or manually at a later time. Activities can also /// be stopped at any time. However, to make stopping /// an activity work, the method implementing the /// activity has to check periodically whether it /// has been requested to stop, and if so, return. /// Activities are stopped before the object they belong to is /// destroyed. Methods implementing activities cannot have arguments /// or return values. /// /// Activity objects are used as follows: /// /// class ActiveObject /// { /// public: /// ActiveObject(): /// _activity(this, &ActiveObject::runActivity) /// { /// ... /// } /// /// ... /// /// protected: /// void runActivity() /// { /// while (!_activity.isStopped()) /// { /// ... /// } /// } /// /// private: /// Activity _activity; /// }; { public: typedef RunnableAdapter RunnableAdapterType; typedef typename RunnableAdapterType::Callback Callback; Activity(C * pOwner, Callback method) : _pOwner(pOwner), _runnable(*pOwner, method), _stopped(true), _running(false), _done(false) /// Creates the activity. Call start() to /// start it. { poco_check_ptr(pOwner); } ~Activity() /// Stops and destroys the activity. { try { stop(); wait(); } catch (...) { poco_unexpected(); } } void start() /// Starts the activity by acquiring a /// thread for it from the default thread pool. { start(ThreadPool::defaultPool()); } void start(ThreadPool & pool) { FastMutex::ScopedLock lock(_mutex); if (!_running) { _done.reset(); _stopped = false; _running = true; try { pool.start(*this); } catch (...) { _running = false; throw; } } } void stop() /// Requests to stop the activity. { FastMutex::ScopedLock lock(_mutex); _stopped = true; } void wait() /// Waits for the activity to complete. { if (_running) { _done.wait(); } } void wait(long milliseconds) /// Waits the given interval for the activity to complete. /// An TimeoutException is thrown if the activity does not /// complete within the given interval. { if (_running) { _done.wait(milliseconds); } } bool isStopped() const /// Returns true if the activity has been requested to stop. { return _stopped; } bool isRunning() const /// Returns true if the activity is running. { return _running; } protected: void run() { try { _runnable.run(); } catch (...) { _running = false; _done.set(); throw; } _running = false; _done.set(); } private: Activity(); Activity(const Activity &); Activity & operator=(const Activity &); C * _pOwner; RunnableAdapterType _runnable; volatile bool _stopped; volatile bool _running; Event _done; FastMutex _mutex; }; } // namespace Poco #endif // Foundation_Activity_INCLUDED