Hello i learn about go routine and channel. I do some experiment with channel, i send a data over channel and try to catch it in 2 functions. But my second function not run
Here is my code :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"time"
)
func timeout(duration int, ch chan<- bool) {
time.AfterFunc(time.Duration(duration)*time.Second, func() {
ch <- true
})
}
func watcher(duration int, ch <-chan bool) {
<-ch
fmt.Println("
Timeout! no Answer after", duration, "seconds")
os.Exit(0)
}
func watcher2(duration int, ch <-chan bool) {
<-ch
fmt.Println("This is watcher 2 as a second receiver")
}
func main() {
var data = make(chan bool)
var duration = 5
go timeout(duration, data)
go watcher(duration, data)
go watcher2(duration, data)
var input string
fmt.Print("What is 725/25 ? ")
fmt.Scan(&input)
if input == "29" {
fmt.Println("Correct")
} else {
fmt.Println("Wrong!")
}
}
Can you tell me some explanation about it? Thank you
As @Andy Schweig mentioned, you can pull from Go channel only once. If you still want to receive message twice, you can use Observer design pattern:
import "fmt"
type Observer interface {
Notify(message string)
}
type Watcher struct {
name string
}
func (w Watcher) Notify(message string) {
fmt.Printf("Watcher %s got message %s
", w.name, message)
}
var watchers = [...]Watcher {{name: "Watcher 1"}, {name: "Watcher 2"}}
var c = make(chan string)
func notifier() {
var message string
for {
// Messaged pulled only once
message = <- c
// But all watchers still receive it
for _, w := range watchers {
w.Notify(message)
}
}
}
func main() {
go notifier()
c <- "hello"
c <- "how are you?"
}
The channel
you declared can only deal with one receiver. By default channels
are unbuffered
, meaning that they will only accept sends if there is a corresponding receiver to receive the sent value. Whereas a buffered
channel accept a limited number of values without a corresponding receiver for those values. If you are looking to inject multiple input and its subsequent receive then you need declare your channel
as buffered channel
.
ch := make(chan bool, n) //n being the number of items to buffer