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hallizh
hallizh

Reputation: 150

Queue incoming Web API 2 calls

I receive a big amount of data to my web api service that takes a while to process (Parse, process data, put in DB, etc).

The problem I'm having is that the processing is not always finished when the next chunk of data comes. I don't want to process the data simultaneously but rather wait for the first call to finish before processing the next.

I've looked into RabbitMQ and other solutions similar - the problem is that I don't have a process running checking the queue at all times "while(true)" style.

Any suggestions ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1339

Answers (1)

Guillaume
Guillaume

Reputation: 13138

You can't handle a queue without a running process. If you make your API call wait untill the processing slot is ready you'll get timeouts.

You must use a solution like RabbitMQ and a worker process that process incoming data. Nothing prevents this process from pushing result using SignalR.

Upvotes: 2

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