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/*************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Tavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> *
* *
* This file is part of The Dimension Library. *
* *
* The Dimension Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/ *
* or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License *
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the *
* License, or (at your option) any later version. *
* *
* The Dimension Library is distributed in the hope that it will be *
* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty *
* of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU *
* Lesser General Public License for more details. *
* *
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public *
* License along with this program. If not, see *
* <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. *
*************************************************************************/
/**
* @file
* An interface for asynchronous tasks. *_async() versions of functions
* return a dmnsn_future* object which can indicate the progress of the
* background task, and wait for task completion. The task's return value
* is returned as an int from dmnsn_finish_progress().
*/
#ifndef DMNSN_CONCURRENCY_H
#error "Please include <dimension/concurrency.h> instead of this header directly."
#endif
#include <stdbool.h>
/** A future object. */
typedef struct dmnsn_future dmnsn_future;
/**
* Join the worker thread and return its integer return value in addition to
* deleting \p future.
* @param[in,out] future The background task to join.
* @return The return value of the background task.
*/
int dmnsn_future_join(dmnsn_future *future);
/**
* Interrupt the execution of a background thread.
* @param[in,out] future The background task to cancel.
*/
void dmnsn_future_cancel(dmnsn_future *future);
/**
* Get the progress of the background task.
* @param[in] future The background task to examine.
* @return The progress of the background task, in [0.0, 1.0].
*/
double dmnsn_future_progress(const dmnsn_future *future);
/**
* Find out if a background task is finished.
* @param[in] future The background task to examine.
* @return true if the task is done, false otherwise.
*/
bool dmnsn_future_is_done(const dmnsn_future *future);
/**
* Wait for a certain amount of progress. Always use this rather than
* spinlocking.
* @param[in] future The background task to monitor.
* @param[in] progress The progress value to wait for.
*/
void dmnsn_future_wait(const dmnsn_future *future, double progress);
/**
* Pause all threads working on the given future. Once this function returns,
* it is safe to examine the intermediate state of the asynchronous computation.
* @param[in,out] future The background task to pause.
*/
void dmnsn_future_pause(dmnsn_future *future);
/**
* Resume a previously paused future object.
* @param[in,out] future The background task to resume.
*/
void dmnsn_future_resume(dmnsn_future *future);
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