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Programming language: Go
License: Apache License 2.0
Tags: Goroutines    
Latest version: v1.0.7

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go-waitgroup

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How to use

An package that allows you to use the constructs of a sync.WaitGroup to create a pool of goroutines and control the concurrency.

Using it is just like a normal sync.WaitGroup. The only difference is the initialisation. When you use waitgroup.NewWaitGroup, you have the option to specify it's size.

Any int which is bigger than 0 will limit the number of concurrent goroutines. If you specify -1 or 0, all goroutines will run at once (just like a plain sync.WaitGroup).

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

    urls := []string{
        "https://www.easyjet.com/",
        "https://www.skyscanner.de/",
        "https://www.ryanair.com",
        "https://wizzair.com/",
        "https://www.swiss.com/",
    }

    wg := waitgroup.NewWaitGroup(3)

    for _, url := range urls {
        wg.BlockAdd()
        go func(url string) {
            defer wg.Done()
            fmt.Printf("%s: checking\n", url)
            res, err := http.Get(url)
            if err != nil {
                fmt.Println("Error: %v")
            } else {
                defer res.Body.Close()
                fmt.Printf("%s: result: %v\n", url, err)
            }
        }(url)
    }

    wg.Wait()
    fmt.Println("Finished")

}

Using closures

There is also a way to use function closures to make it even more readable:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

    urls := []string{
        "https://www.easyjet.com/",
        "https://www.skyscanner.de/",
        "https://www.ryanair.com",
        "https://wizzair.com/",
        "https://www.swiss.com/",
    }

    wg := waitgroup.NewWaitGroup(3)

    for _, url := range urls {

        urlToCheck := url
        wg.Add(func() {
            fmt.Printf("%s: checking\n", urlToCheck)
            res, err := http.Get(urlToCheck)
            if err != nil {
                fmt.Println("Error: %v")
            } else {
                defer res.Body.Close()
                fmt.Printf("%s: result: %v\n", urlToCheck, err)
            }
        })

    }

    wg.Wait()
    fmt.Println("Finished")

}

Handling errors

If you want to handle errors, there is also an ErrorGroup. This uses the same principles as a normal WaitGroup with a small twist.

First of all, you can only add functions which returns just an error.

Second, as soon as one of the queued items fail, the rest will be cancelled:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "os"

    "github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

    ctx := context.Background()

    wg, ctx := waitgroup.NewErrorGroup(ctx, tc.size)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error: %v")
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    wg.Add(func() error {
        return nil
    })

    wg.Add(func() error {
        return errors.New("An error occurred")
    })

    if err := wg.Wait(); err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error: %v")
        os.Exit(1)
    }

}

You can also add multiple functions in one step:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "os"

    "github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

    ctx := context.Background()

    wg, ctx := waitgroup.NewErrorGroup(ctx, tc.size)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error: %v")
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    wg.Add(
        func() error {
            return nil
        },
        func() error {
            return errors.New("An error occurred")
        },
    )

    if err := wg.Wait(); err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error: %v")
        os.Exit(1)
    }

}


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the go-waitgroup README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.