//Copyright (c) 2018 Emil Dotchevski //Copyright (c) 2018 Second Spectrum, Inc. //Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying //file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) //This is a simple program that demonstrates the use of LEAF to transport error info between threads, //when using exception handling to report failures. See transport_ec.cpp for the variant that doesn't //use exception handling. #include #include #include #include #include #include namespace leaf = boost::leaf; //Define several error info types. struct failed_thread_id { std::thread::id value; }; struct failure_info1 { std::string value; }; struct failure_info2 { int value; }; struct failure_info3 { long value; }; struct failure_info4 { float value; }; //A type that represents a successfully returned result from a task. struct task_result { }; //An exception type thrown in case of task failure. struct failure : virtual std::exception { }; //This is a test task which succeeds or fails depending on its argument. In case of success, it returns //task_result, in case of error it throws failure. task_result task( bool succeed ) { if( succeed ) return task_result(); //Simulate successful result. else leaf::throw_exception( failure(), failed_thread_id{std::this_thread::get_id()}, failure_info1{"info"}, failure_info2{42}, failure_info4{42} ); } //Launch the specified number of asynchronous tasks. In case an asynchronous task fails, its error info //(of the type list used to instantiate leaf::capture) is captured in a leaf::captured_result, which //transports it to the main thread. template std::vector> launch_async_tasks( int thread_count ) { std::vector> fut; std::generate_n( std::inserter(fut,fut.end()), thread_count, [ ] { return std::async( std::launch::async, leaf::capture_exception( [ ] //leaf::capture returns leaf::captured_result... { return task(rand()%4); //...from the T returned by the task. } ) ); } ); return fut; } int main() { //Launch tasks, transport the specified types of error info. For demonstration, note that the task provides //failure_info4 which we don't care about, and that we say we could use failure_info3, but which the //task doesn't provide. So, we'll only get failed_thread_id, failure_info1 and failure_info2. auto fut = launch_async_tasks(42); //Collect results or deal with failures. for( auto & f : fut ) { f.wait(); //Storage for error info. leaf::expect exp; try { //Instead of calling future::get we pass the future object to leaf::get. In case the future finished with an exception, //this will rethrow that exception, after setting its captured error info. task_result r = leaf::get(f); //Success! std::cout << "Success!" << std::endl; } catch( failure const & e ) { //Failure! Handle error, print failure info. handle_error( exp, e, leaf::match( [ ] ( std::string const & v1, int v2, std::thread::id tid ) { std::cerr << "Error in thread " << tid << "! failure_info1: " << v1 << ", failure_info2: " << v2 << std::endl; } ) ); } } }