> Yesterday I was writing a bit of code that needs to wait for an
> external event to happen but if it doesn't happen with X amount of
> time,
> to timeout with an error.
>
> Is there a library to handle this? I know you can do it with a future
> and if you google the general idea, there are a few blog posts, stack
> overflow questions etc that all have the same basic solution. It seems
> like such a common thing to do that there would be a standard
> function/macro out there for it rather than everyone rolling their
> own. I couldn't however find one.
>
> Does one exist? If yes, pointer in the right direction.
You can roll your own macro to do this.
Example -
(defmacro with-timeout [ms & body]
`(let [f# (future ~@body)]
(.get #^java.util.concurrent.Future f# ~ms
java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit/MILLISECONDS)))
Regards,
BG
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