cancellation_token_hoc081098

Author: Petrus Nguyễn Thái Học

Dart Cancellation Token. Inspired by CancellationToken in C#. A Dart utility package for easy async task cancellation.

Features

• x Reuse a single CancellationToken for multiple tasks, and cancel all of them with a single call to CancellationToken.cancel().
• x Cancel futures and clean-up resources with token.guardFuture(block).
• x Cancel streams and clean-up resources with token.guardStream(stream)/Stream.guardedBy(token).
• x Integrate with rxdart/rxdart_ext with useCancellationToken.
• x Very simple, lightweight, performant, and easy to use.

Getting started

1. Add dependency

dependencies:
  cancellation_token_hoc081098: <latest_version>

2. Import

import 'package:cancellation_token_hoc081098/cancellation_token_hoc081098.dart';

Usage

1. guardFuture

void main() async {
  // Create a CancellationToken
  final token = CancellationToken();

  // Simulate a long-running task
  Future<void> doWork(int number) async {
    print('doWork($number) started');
    await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 100));
    print('doWork($number) finished');
  }

  // Guard a Future
  final future = token.guardFuture(() async {
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      token.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
      await doWork(i);
      token.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
    }
    return 42;
  });

  future
      .then((v) => print('Result: $v'))
      .onError<Object>((e, st) => print('Error: $e'));

  // Cancel the token after 300ms
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));

  // Cancel the token
  token.cancel();

  // Wait a little longer to ensure that the Future is cancelled
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2));

  // Output:
  // doWork(0) started
  // doWork(0) finished
  // doWork(1) started
  // doWork(1) finished
  // doWork(2) started
  // Error: CancellationException
  // doWork(2) finished
}

2. guardStream

void main() async {
  // Create a CancellationToken
  final token = CancellationToken();

  // Simulate a long-running task
  Future<void> doWork(int number) async {
    print('doWork($number) started');
    await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 100));
    print('doWork($number) finished');
  }

  // Guard a Stream
  final stream = Rx.fromCallable(() async {
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      token.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
      await doWork(i);
      token.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
    }
    return 42;
  }).guardedBy(token);

  stream
      .doOnData((v) => print('Result: $v'))
      .doOnError((e, st) => print('Error: $e'))
      .listen(null);

  // Cancel the token after 300ms
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));

  // Cancel the token
  token.cancel();

  // Wait a little longer to ensure that the stream is cancelled
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2));

  // Output:
  // doWork(0) started
  // doWork(0) finished
  // doWork(1) started
  // doWork(1) finished
  // doWork(2) started
  // Error: CancellationException
  // doWork(2) finished
}

3. useCancellationToken

import 'package:rxdart_ext/rxdart_ext.dart';

void main() async {
  // Simulate a long-running task
  Future<void> doWork(int number) async {
    print('doWork($number) started');
    await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 100));
    print('doWork($number) finished');
  }

  // useCancellationToken
  final Single<int> single = useCancellationToken((cancelToken) async {
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      cancelToken.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
      await doWork(i);
      cancelToken.guard(); // Throws if token is cancelled
    }
    return 42;
  });

  final subscription = single
      .doOnData((v) => print('Result: $v'))
      .doOnError((e, st) => print('Error: $e'))
      .listen(null);

  // Cancel the subscription after 300ms
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));

  // Cancel the subscription
  await subscription.cancel();

  // Wait a little longer to ensure that the stream is cancelled
  await Future<void>.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2));

  // Output:
  // doWork(0) started
  // doWork(0) finished
  // doWork(1) started
  // doWork(1) finished
  // doWork(2) started
  // doWork(2) finished
}

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Petrus Nguyễn Thái Học