// Package deadline implements the deadline (also known as "timeout") resiliency pattern for Go. package deadline import ( "errors" "time" ) // ErrTimedOut is the error returned from Run when the deadline expires. var ErrTimedOut = errors.New("timed out waiting for function to finish") // Deadline implements the deadline/timeout resiliency pattern. type Deadline struct { timeout time.Duration } // New constructs a new Deadline with the given timeout. func New(timeout time.Duration) *Deadline { return &Deadline{ timeout: timeout, } } // Run runs the given function, passing it a stopper channel. If the deadline passes before // the function finishes executing, Run returns ErrTimeOut to the caller and closes the stopper // channel so that the work function can attempt to exit gracefully. It does not (and cannot) // simply kill the running function, so if it doesn't respect the stopper channel then it may // keep running after the deadline passes. If the function finishes before the deadline, then // the return value of the function is returned from Run. func (d *Deadline) Run(work func(<-chan struct{}) error) error { result := make(chan error) stopper := make(chan struct{}) go func() { result <- work(stopper) }() select { case ret := <-result: return ret case <-time.After(d.timeout): close(stopper) return ErrTimedOut } }