Detailed Description

A thread which waits on a queue, and when actions (callbacks) become available, it pulls them from the queue and executes them.

Inheritance diagram for ola::thread::ConsumerThread:

Public Types
typedef BaseCallback0< void > *	Action

Public Member Functions
	ConsumerThread (std::queue< Action > callback_queue, const bool shutdown, Mutex mutex, ConditionVariable condition_var)
void *	Run ()
Public Member Functions inherited from ola::thread::Thread
	Thread (const Options &options=Options())
	Create a new thread with the specified thread options.
virtual	~Thread ()
	Destructor.
virtual bool	Start ()
	Start the thread and wait for the thread to be running.
virtual bool	FastStart ()
	Start the thread and return immediately.
virtual bool	Join (void *ptr=NULL)
	Join this thread.
bool	IsRunning ()
	Check if the thread is running.
ThreadId	Id () const
	Return the thread id.
std::string	Name () const
	Return the thread name.

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from ola::thread::Thread
static ThreadId	Self ()
	Returns the current thread's id.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ola::thread::ConsumerThread::ConsumerThread	(	std::queue< Action > *	callback_queue,
		const bool *	shutdown,
		Mutex *	mutex,
		ConditionVariable *	condition_var
	)

inline

Parameters

callback_queue	the queue to pull actions from
shutdown	a bool which is set to true if this thread is to finish.
mutex	the Mutex object which protects the queue and shutdown variable.
condition_var	the ConditionVariable to wait on. This signals when the queue is non-empty, or shutdown changes to true.

void * ola::thread::ConsumerThread::Run ( )

virtual

The run method, this loops, executing actions, until we're told to terminate.

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