See https://github.com/Raynes/clojail
It's a sandboxing library for Clojure, which among other things means it needs to try running an operation and give up after N seconds. You can skip the sandboxing part entirely if you want; it exposes a pretty general thunk-timeout function. On Mar 9, 4:43 am, Sean Allen <s...@monkeysnatchbanana.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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))) > > Variation on that macro are what I've seen across the variety of sources > I've mentioned in my original message. It just strikes me as odd that > something > so general hasn't made it into a library. > > If it really hasn't made a library, ok.. I just wanted to make sure it > wasn't in a > library somewhere and that keeping the hand rolled macro wasn't something > I should still be doing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
