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Edmondo
Edmondo

Reputation: 20080

Operation Queue with paused consumer in .NET

I need to implement in C# 4.0 a logic where an operation might be either executed immediately or put in a Queue waiting that a certain network service becomes available.

What is the best approach to implement such an operation? Is it having a thread-safe queue of Function and a polling consumer that consumes these operations only when the resource is available?

Is there any library or example for implementing similar features?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 102

Answers (1)

S.N
S.N

Reputation: 5140

We can have producer consumer approach with plenty of implementation out. In addition, .NET Concurrent namespace also have BlockingCollection<T> or ConcurrentQueue<T>. However, it seems the challenge is not to implement producer consumer pattern but to wait in the Queue until some resource is available (network service in your case). This is more of a non-deterministic situation, where you have no idea when the resource will be ready to consume. This challenge can be addressed through having a queue with persistence. Eg: Microsoft's Message Queue (MSMQ) with private/public queue.

Upvotes: 1

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