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final class AsyncQueue[A] extends AnyRef

A high-performance, back-pressured, asynchronous queue implementation.

This is the impure, future-enabled version of monix.catnap.ConcurrentQueue.

Example

import monix.execution.Scheduler.Implicits.global

val queue = AsyncQueue(capacity = 32)

def producer(n: Int): CancelableFuture[Unit] =
  queue.offer(n).flatMap { _ =>
    if (n >= 0) producer(n - 1)
    else CancelableFuture.unit
  }

def consumer(index: Int): CancelableFuture[Unit] =
  queue.poll().flatMap { a =>
    println(s"Worker $$index: $$a")
  }

Back-Pressuring and the Polling Model

The initialized queue can be limited to a maximum buffer size, a size that could be rounded to a power of 2, so you can't rely on it to be precise. Such a bounded queue can be initialized via AsyncQueue.bounded. Also see BufferCapacity, the configuration parameter that can be passed in the AsyncQueue.withConfig builder.

On offer, when the queue is full, the implementation back-pressures until the queue has room again in its internal buffer, the future being completed when the value was pushed successfully. Similarly poll awaits the queue to have items in it. This works for both bounded and unbounded queues.

For both offer and poll, in case awaiting a result happens, the implementation does so asynchronously, without any threads being blocked.

Currently the implementation is optimized for speed. In a producer-consumer pipeline the best performance is achieved if the producer(s) and the consumer(s) do not contend for the same resources. This is why when doing asynchronous waiting for the queue to be empty or full, the implementation does so by repeatedly retrying the operation, with asynchronous boundaries and delays, until it succeeds. Fairness is ensured by the implementation.

Multi-threading Scenario

This queue support a ChannelType configuration, for fine tuning depending on the needed multi-threading scenario — and this can yield better performance:

The default is MPMC, because that's the safest scenario.

import monix.execution.ChannelType.MPSC

val queue = AsyncQueue(
  capacity = 64,
  channelType = MPSC
)

WARNING: default is MPMC, however any other scenario implies a relaxation of the internal synchronization between threads.

This means that using the wrong scenario can lead to severe concurrency bugs. If you're not sure what multi-threading scenario you have, then just stick with the default MPMC.

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AsyncQueue.scala
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  5. def clear(): Unit

    Removes all items from the queue.

    Removes all items from the queue.

    Called from the consumer thread, subject to the restrictions appropriate to the implementation indicated by ChannelType.

    WARNING: the clear operation should be done on the consumer side, so it must be called from the same thread(s) that call poll.

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  7. def drain(minLength: Int, maxLength: Int): CancelableFuture[Seq[A]]

    Fetches multiple elements from the queue, if available.

    Fetches multiple elements from the queue, if available.

    This operation back-pressures until the minLength requirement is achieved.

    minLength

    specifies the minimum length of the returned sequence; the operation back-pressures until this length is satisfied

    maxLength

    is the capacity of the used buffer, being the max length of the returned sequence

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  17. def offer(a: A): CancelableFuture[Unit]

    Pushes a value in the queue, or if the queue is full, then repeats the operation until it succeeds.

    Pushes a value in the queue, or if the queue is full, then repeats the operation until it succeeds.

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  18. def offerMany(seq: Iterable[A]): CancelableFuture[Unit]

    Pushes multiple values in the queue.

    Pushes multiple values in the queue. Back-pressures if the queue is full.

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  19. def poll(): CancelableFuture[A]

    Fetches a value from the queue, or if the queue is empty continuously polls the queue until a value is made available.

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  22. def tryOffer(a: A): Boolean

    Try pushing a value to the queue.

    Try pushing a value to the queue.

    The protocol is unsafe because usage of the "try*" methods imply an understanding of concurrency, or otherwise the code can be very fragile and buggy.

    a

    is the value pushed in the queue

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    true if the operation succeeded, or false if the queue is full and cannot accept any more elements

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  23. def tryPoll(): Option[A]

    Try pulling a value out of the queue.

    Try pulling a value out of the queue.

    The protocol is unsafe because usage of the "try*" methods imply an understanding of concurrency, or otherwise the code can be very fragile and buggy.

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    Some(a) in case a value was successfully retrieved from the queue, or None in case the queue is empty

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