Often times I don't need all the elaborate machinery and verbosity of
context.
For simple things like stopping a goroutine, I usually use a slight
elaboration on closing a channel.
This is a pattern I call "idempotent close". I've wrapped it up in a little
library called "idem". Here is an illustration:
a) the main state struct for the goroutine always has a member called Halt.
import "github.com/glycerine/idem"
type GoroutineState struct {
Halt *idem.Halter
}
func NewGoroutineState() *GoroutineState {
return &GoroutineState {
Halt: idem.NewHalter(),
}
}
b) The state machine for the goroutine is typically launched from a Start()
function; it checks for shutdown with
func (g *GoroutineState) Start() {
go func() {
for {
select {
case <- g.Halt.ReqStop.Chan:
g.Halt.MarkDone()
return
case... // the rest of the state machine logic
}
}
}()
}
c) Any number of clients can then safely shutdown the goroutine g:
g.Halt.RequestStop()
<- g.Halt.Done.Chan // optional, but use this if you need to know g is done
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