Function makeIsolated

Creates a new isolated object.

Isolated objects contain no mutable aliasing outside of their own reference tree. They can thus be safely converted to immutable and they can be safely passed between threads.

The function returns an instance of Isolated that will allow proxied access to the members of the object, as well as providing means to convert the object to immutable or to an ordinary mutable object.

Prototype

Isolated!T makeIsolated(T, ARGS...)(
  ARGS args
);

Examples

import vibe.core.concurrency;

class Item {
	double value;
	string name;
}

void modifyItem(Isolated!Item itm)
{
	itm.value = 1.3;
	// TODO: send back to initiating thread
}

void main()
{
	immutable(Item)[] items;

	// create immutable item procedurally
	auto itm = makeIsolated!Item();
	itm.value = 2.4;
	itm.name = "Test";
	items ~= itm.freeze();

	// send isolated item to other thread
	auto itm2 = makeIsolated!Item();
	spawn(&modifyItem, itm2.move());
	// ...
}

Authors

Sönke Ludwig

Copyright

© 2013 RejectedSoftware e.K.

License

Subject to the terms of the MIT license, as written in the included LICENSE.txt file.