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Make reporting of parse result non-blocking in WatchDeviceChanges #185
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The
WatchDeviceChanges
function creates a goroutine that watches for any change notifications coming from the underlying Device. The result ofb.Parse
is sent to the channelch
using a blocking send. Because of this, the caller toWatchDeviceChanges
must continuously empty this channel otherise the goroutine will simply hang on this line, meaning it will never exit and result in a goroutine leak. So the caller code looks something like this:The use of
ch
to return the value ofb.Parse
here seems a bit clunky. It would be useful to just callWatchDeviceChanges
and check for errors without needing to do any other maintenance except callUnwatchDeviceChanges
when the beacon is removed. Isch
used to notify the caller that the beacon properties have changed so that they can take action? If so, is it critical that no events are missed such that a blocking send is required? If not, perhaps the blocking send toch
in the goroutine could be changed to a non-blocking one. This simplifies the caller code, as they can choose to ignore the channel if they don't need it:The caller code is thus simplified: