使用context实现多个goroutine的依赖管理

解决的问题 在很多实际情况,比如处理网络请求时,我们需要启动多个goroutine来处理不同的逻辑,比如一个主要的goroutine用来响应请求,生成网页,同时它还启动一个子线程用来获取数据库信息,还有一个则写日志等等。正常情况都没有问题,但是一旦出现异常,如何优雅的退出这些子线程,同时释放掉可能占用的资源呢?
context 在golang中,人们发明了context接口处理这种情况。早在14年,这个库就出现了,并且提出了基于context的并发编程范式(英文好的同学可以直接撸这篇文章)。
今年8月go1.7发布后,它正式成为了标准库的一员。
如何使用 在golang的context库中,首先定义了context的接口,然后给出了context接口的4种实现:

  • WithCancel(parent Context) (Context, CancelFunc)
    初始化一个可以被cancel的context,同时把新context对象作为child放入parent的children数组中。当parent终止时,child也会接受到信号。这个过程叫propagateCancel
  • WithDeadline(parent Context, deadline time.Time) (Context, CancelFunc)
    同样初始化一个context,除了实现跟WithCancel同样的功能外,还增加了一个时间变量,一旦当前时间超过这个deadline,那么这个context以及它的所有子孙都被被cancel。
  • WithTimeout(parent Context, timeout time.Duration) (Context, CancelFunc)
    WithDeadline类似,如果说WithDeadline是一个绝对时间上的限制,那么WithTimeout就是一个相对时间的限制
  • WithValue(parent Context, key, val interface{}) Context
    单纯给parent增加value,不需要propagateCancel。value可以用来跨进程、跨api的传递数据,最好是和某个请求相关的参数,不要传递太多大量数据。
所以关键就在于propagateCancel,实际工程中,所有context共同组成了一个依赖树,他们都继承自一个祖先。一旦parent被cancel,就会通过propagateCancel递归的传播给下面的所有子孙。可以看出,context就好比信使,或者说通讯协议,通过遵循context接口构建的这个框架,能够保证子线程及时获得与他相关的父线程的状态,从而由子线程根据情况作出反应。至于怎么反应,就取决于各位码农的能力和搬砖当时的心情了。。。
另外,golang有一套静态分析工具可以分析context的传播过程,所以为了方便这个工具的使用,实际使用中有几个规定:
  • 不要把context作为struct内部变量使用,而是把它和其他变量一块作为参数传入下一个函数。
  • context变量需要作为函数的第一个参数传入,命名一般为ctx
具体例子 这个例子来源于基于context的并发编程范式,但是为了符合国情我做了些修改:
包括3部分:
  • server.go
    主线程,会创建一个server服务器,可以通过localhost:9090/search访问。接到请求后,它会创建父context,同时生成一个新goroutine,去fakesrv(本来应该去google上的)上请求数据。
  • google.go
    替换原来的google网址,改成由fakesrv提供的一个网址。主要就是演示一下context的运行过程,请求fakesrv的工作在一个新goroutine中进行,同时它还有一个访问数据库的操作。如果父context因为timeout超时了,那么对fakesrv和数据库的访问也会终止。在代码中,演示了如何监听context信息的过程。
  • query.go
    解析url中的query参数
  • fakesrv.go
    提供http://localhost:9000/context...供google.go访问。
mycontext/serve.go
// The server program issues Google search requests and demonstrates the use of // the go.net Context API. It serves on port 8080. // // The /search endpoint accepts these query params: //q=the Google search query //timeout=a timeout for the request, in time.Duration format // // For example, http://localhost:8080/search?q=golang&timeout=1s serves the // first few Google search results for "golang" or a "deadline exceeded" error // if the timeout expires. package mainimport ( "html/template" "log" "net/http" "time""context" "mycontext/google" "mycontext/query" )func main() { http.HandleFunc("/search", handleSearch) log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":9090", nil)) }// handleSearch handles URLs like /search?q=golang&timeout=1s by forwarding the // query to google.Search. If the query param includes timeout, the search is // canceled after that duration elapses. func handleSearch(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { // ctx is the Context for this handler. Calling cancel closes the // ctx.Done channel, which is the cancellation signal for requests // started by this handler. var ( ctxcontext.Context qctx*query.QueryCtx cancel context.CancelFunc ) timeout, err := time.ParseDuration(req.FormValue("timeout")) if err == nil { // The request has a timeout, so create a context that is // canceled automatically when the timeout expires. ctx, cancel = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), timeout) } else { ctx, cancel = context.WithCancel(context.Background()) } defer cancel() // Cancel ctx as soon as handleSearch returns. qctx, err = query.NewQueryCtx(ctx, req) if err != nil { http.Error(w, "no query", http.StatusBadRequest) return }// Run the Google search and print the results. start := time.Now() results, err := google.Search(qctx) elapsed := time.Since(start) if err != nil { http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError) return } if err := resultsTemplate.Execute(w, struct { Resultsgoogle.Results Timeout, Elapsed time.Duration }{ Results: results, Timeout: timeout, Elapsed: elapsed, }); err != nil { log.Print(err) return } }var resultsTemplate = template.Must(template.New("results").Parse(`
    {{range .Results}}
  1. {{.Title}} - {{.SubTitle}}
  2. {{end}}
{{len .Results}} results in {{.Elapsed}}; timeout {{.Timeout}}
`))

mycontext/google/google.go
// Package google provides a function to do Google searches using the Google Web // Search API. See https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/ // // This package is an example to accompany https://blog.golang.org/context. // It is not intended for use by others. // // Google has since disabled its search API, // and so this package is no longer useful. package googleimport ( "context" "encoding/json" "log" "mycontext/query" "net/http" "time" )// Results is an ordered list of search results. type Results []Result// A Result contains the title and URL of a search result. type Result struct { Title, SubTitle string }// Search sends query to Google search and returns the results. func Search(ctx *query.QueryCtx) (Results, error) { // Prepare the Google Search API request. req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://localhost:9000/context_demo", nil) if err != nil { return nil, err }ctx.SetReq(req) // Issue the HTTP request and handle the response. The httpDo function // cancels the request if ctx.Done is closed. var results Results err = httpDo(ctx, req, func(resp *http.Response, err error) error { if err != nil { return err } defer resp.Body.Close()// Parse the JSON search result. // https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/#fonje var data struct { ResponseData struct { Results []struct { Title, SubTitle string } } } if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data); err != nil { return err } for _, res := range data.ResponseData.Results { results = append(results, Result{Title: res.Title, SubTitle: res.SubTitle}) } return nil }) // httpDo waits for the closure we provided to return, so it's safe to // read results here. return results, err }// httpDo issues the HTTP request and calls f with the response. If ctx.Done is // closed while the request or f is running, httpDo cancels the request, waits // for f to exit, and returns ctx.Err. Otherwise, httpDo returns f's error. func httpDo(ctx *query.QueryCtx, req *http.Request, f func(*http.Response, error) error) error { // Run the HTTP request in a goroutine and pass the response to f. tr := &http.Transport{} client := &http.Client{Transport: tr} // WithCancel会在ctx的children中增加cancelDb,这样当 // ctx 结束的时候,cancelDb也会受到消息 cancelDb, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx.Context) defer cancel() c := make(chan error, 1) go func() { c <- f(client.Do(req)) }() go func(ctx context.Context) { t := time.NewTimer(2 * time.Second)select { case <-t.C: log.Println("db access finished!") case <-ctx.Done(): log.Println("canceld by parent, release resource") } }(cancelDb) select { case <-ctx.Done(): tr.CancelRequest(req) <-c // Wait for f to return. return ctx.Err() case err := <-c: return err } }

mycontext/query/query.go
package queryimport ( "context" "fmt" "net/http" )func NewQueryCtx(ctx context.Context, req *http.Request) (*QueryCtx, error) { q := req.FormValue("q") if q == "" { return nil, fmt.Errorf("no query supplied!") } return &QueryCtx{ctx, q}, nil }type QueryCtx struct { context.Context val string }func (ctx *QueryCtx) SetReq(req *http.Request) { q := req.URL.Query() q.Set("q", ctx.val)req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode() }

mycontext/fakesrv/main.go
package mainimport ( "bytes" "encoding/json" "fmt" "log" "math/rand" "net/http" "strconv" "strings" "time" )func init() { log.SetFlags(log.Lshortfile) }type Results struct { ResponseData struct { Results []Content } }// A Result contains the title and URL of a search result. type Content struct { Title, SubTitle string }func main() {http.HandleFunc("/context_demo", handleContext) http.ListenAndServe(":9000", nil) }func handleContext(resp http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) { defer func() { if e := recover(); e != nil { if msg, ok := e.(string); ok { resp.Write([]byte(msg)) } else { panic(e) } } }() check_error := func(err error, msg string) { if err != nil { if msg != "" { panic(err.Error() + ":" + msg) } else { panic(err.Error()) } } } if req.Method == "GET" { q := req.FormValue("q") seg := strings.Split(q, ":") if len(seg) < 2 { log.Println("query format wrong") resp.Write([]byte("query format wrong")) return } title := seg[0] num, err := strconv.Atoi(seg[1]) check_error(err, "") rs := Results{} for i := 0; i < num; i++ { rs.ResponseData.Results = append(rs.ResponseData.Results, Content{fmt.Sprintf("%s %d", title, i), RandomString(20)}) } buff := bytes.NewBuffer(nil) err = json.NewEncoder(buff).Encode(rs) check_error(err, "") time.Sleep(time.Second * 2) resp.Write(buff.Bytes()) } else { resp.Write([]byte("请使用get方法!")) } } func RandomString(strlen int) string { rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano()) const chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" result := make([]byte, strlen) for i := 0; i < strlen; i++ { result[i] = chars[rand.Intn(len(chars))] } return string(result) }

Makefile
run: go build ./mycontext & cd fakesrv && go build && ./fakesrv &test: @echo "======= test without timeout =======" curl localhost:9090/search?q=title:6 @echo "======= test with timeout 1s =======" curl localhost:9090/search?q=title:6\&timeout=1s @echo "======= test with timeout 4s =======" curl localhost:9090/search?q=title:6\&timeout=4s

测试
【使用context实现多个goroutine的依赖管理】在命令行运行如下命令,即可看到具体结果
make run
make test

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