Hi all,

I'm working on a problem that needs an extra set of eyes. I'm getting an
error while trying to write an algorithm that:

   1. Over 6400 times, makes a request to an external Java library, for
   results
   2. Asynchronously listens for those results and ...
   3. Maintains a list of filtered results, 10 (or 'n') at a time, while
   ...
   4. Making the next request until the list of 6400 is exhausted

Below is a very simplified outline of how I've set up my code. Before
getting into the nitty gritty, is there something obvious I can do to fix
this code? Is *alter* a blocking call?


;; A. this gets called for each result received from the "request-result"
call.
(defn *result-handler* [options result]

  ;; process the result
  …

  ;; peel off next request, and send
  (let [stock-list *(:remaining options)*]


    (dosync (alter stock-list rest))

    ;; *** ERROR's here*: it peels off the first few items, but later, just
returns back to the original :remaining list
    (request-result (first @stock-list))
  )
)

;; B. this is where we subscribe to get results

(subscribe-to-results (partial *result-handler* {:a a :b b *:remaining (ref
["orcl", "goog", "msft"])* } ))

;; C. now make request on the first few

(reduce (fn [rlst ech]
      …
      (request-result ech))
    [ "ibm" "aapl" ])





Thanks in advance


Tim Washington
Interruptsoftware.ca

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-- The Prisoner

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