Currenly using the following code to wait for a collection of tasks to complete. However, I now have a situation where I want to be able to cancel/abort the WhenAll call, via a cancellation token preferably. How would I go about that?
Dim TaskCollection As New List(Of Tasks.Task)
For x As Integer = 1 To Threads
Dim NewTask As Tasks.Task = TaskHandler.Delegates(DelegateKey).Invoke(Me, Proxies, TotalParams).ContinueWith(Sub() ThreadFinished())
TaskCollection.Add(NewTask)
Next
Await Tasks.Task.WhenAll(TaskCollection)
I'm assuming it's going to but something along the lines of the next bit of code, but I'm not sure what would go in 'XXX'.
Await Tasks.Task.WhenAny(Tasks.Task.WhenAll(TaskCollection), XXX)
Use TaskCompletionSource<T>
to create a task for some asynchronous condition that does not already have an asynchronous API. Use CancellationToken.Register
to hook the modern CancellationToken-based cancellation system into another cancellation system. Your solution just needs to combine these two.
I have a CancellationToken.AsTask()
extension method in my AsyncEx library, but you can write your own as such:
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension> _
Public Shared Function AsTask(cancellationToken As CancellationToken) As Task
Dim tcs = New TaskCompletionSource(Of Object)()
cancellationToken.Register(Function() tcs.TrySetCanceled(), useSynchronizationContext := False)
Return tcs.Task
End Function
Usage is as you expected:
Await Task.WhenAny(Task.WhenAll(taskCollection), cancellationToken.AsTask())
Dim tcs as new TaskCompletionSource(Of Object)()
Await Tasks.Task.WhenAny(Tasks.Task.WhenAll(TaskCollection), tcs)
To cancel, call tcs.SetResult(Nothing). This will fire your Task.WhenAny.
More elegant from my opinion :
await Task.Run(()=> Task.WaitAll(myArrayOfTasks), theCancellationToken);
You can also await a delay:
await Task.WhenAny(Task.WhenAll(tasks), Task.Delay(1000));