Class: Queue

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
thread_sync.c,
thread_sync.c

Overview

The Queue class implements multi-producer, multi-consumer queues. It is especially useful in threaded programming when information must be exchanged safely between multiple threads. The Queue class implements all the required locking semantics.

The class implements FIFO type of queue. In a FIFO queue, the first tasks added are the first retrieved.

Example:

queue = Queue.new

producer = Thread.new do

5.times do |i|
   sleep rand(i) # simulate expense
   queue << i
   puts "#{i} produced"
end

end

consumer = Thread.new do

5.times do |i|
   value = queue.pop
   sleep rand(i/2) # simulate expense
   puts "consumed #{value}"
end

end

consumer.join

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize ⇒ Object

Creates a new queue instance.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 769

static VALUE
rb_queue_initialize(VALUE self)
{
    struct rb_queue *q = queue_ptr(self);
    RB_OBJ_WRITE(self, &q->que, ary_buf_new());
    list_head_init(queue_waitq(q));
    return self;
}

Instance Method Details

#clear ⇒ Object

Removes all objects from the queue.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 983

static VALUE
rb_queue_clear(VALUE self)
{
    struct rb_queue *q = queue_ptr(self);

    rb_ary_clear(check_array(self, q->que));
    return self;
}

#close ⇒ Object

Closes the queue. A closed queue cannot be re-opened.

After the call to close completes, the following are true:

  • closed? will return true

  • close will be ignored.

  • calling enq/push/<< will raise a ClosedQueueError.

  • when empty? is false, calling deq/pop/shift will return an object from the queue as usual.

  • when empty? is true, deq(false) will not suspend the thread and will return nil. deq(true) will raise a ThreadError.

ClosedQueueError is inherited from StopIteration, so that you can break loop block.

Example:

  	q = Queue.new
    Thread.new{
      while e = q.deq # wait for nil to break loop
        # ...
      end
    }
    q.close



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 822

static VALUE
rb_queue_close(VALUE self)
{
    struct rb_queue *q = queue_ptr(self);

    if (!queue_closed_p(self)) {
	FL_SET(self, QUEUE_CLOSED);

	wakeup_all(queue_waitq(q));
    }

    return self;
}

#closed? ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if the queue is closed.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 843

static VALUE
rb_queue_closed_p(VALUE self)
{
    return queue_closed_p(self) ? Qtrue : Qfalse;
}

#empty? ⇒ Boolean

Returns true if the queue is empty.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 971

static VALUE
rb_queue_empty_p(VALUE self)
{
    return queue_length(self, queue_ptr(self)) == 0 ? Qtrue : Qfalse;
}

#length ⇒ Object #size ⇒ Object Also known as: size

Returns the length of the queue.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 1001

static VALUE
rb_queue_length(VALUE self)
{
    return LONG2NUM(queue_length(self, queue_ptr(self)));
}

#marshal_dump ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 1441

static VALUE
undumpable(VALUE obj)
{
    rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "can't dump %"PRIsVALUE, rb_obj_class(obj));
    UNREACHABLE_RETURN(Qnil);
}

#num_waiting ⇒ Object

Returns the number of threads waiting on the queue.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 1013

static VALUE
rb_queue_num_waiting(VALUE self)
{
    struct rb_queue *q = queue_ptr(self);

    return INT2NUM(q->num_waiting);
}

#pop(non_block = false) ⇒ Object #deq(non_block = false) ⇒ Object #shift(non_block = false) ⇒ Object Also known as: deq, shift

Retrieves data from the queue.

If the queue is empty, the calling thread is suspended until data is pushed onto the queue. If non_block is true, the thread isn’t suspended, and ThreadError is raised.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 957

static VALUE
rb_queue_pop(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self)
{
    int should_block = queue_pop_should_block(argc, argv);
    return queue_do_pop(self, queue_ptr(self), should_block);
}

#push(object) ⇒ Object #enq(object) ⇒ Object #<<(object) ⇒ Object Also known as: enq, <<

Pushes the given object to the queue.



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# File 'thread_sync.c', line 859

static VALUE
rb_queue_push(VALUE self, VALUE obj)
{
    return queue_do_push(self, queue_ptr(self), obj);
}