go-waitgroup

How to use

An package that allows you to use the constructs of a sync.WaitGroup to create a pool of goroutines and control the concurrency.

Using it is just like a normal sync.WaitGroup. The only difference is the initialisation. When you use waitgroup.NewWaitGroup, you have the option to specify it's size.

Any int which is bigger than 0 will limit the number of concurrent goroutines. If you specify -1 or 0, all goroutines will run at once (just like a plain sync.WaitGroup).

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {
    
    urls := []string{
        "https://www.easyjet.com/",
        "https://www.skyscanner.de/",
        "https://www.ryanair.com",
        "https://wizzair.com/",
        "https://www.swiss.com/",
    }

    wg := waitgroup.NewWaitGroup(3)

	for _, url := range urls {
		wg.BlockAdd()
		go func(url string) {
			defer wg.Done()
			fmt.Printf("%s: checking\n", url)
			res, err := http.Get(url)
			if err != nil {
				fmt.Println("Error: %v")
			} else {
				defer res.Body.Close()
				fmt.Printf("%s: result: %v\n", url, err)
			}
		}(url)
	}

    wg.Wait()
    fmt.Println("Finished")

}

Using closures

There is also a way to use function closures to make it even more readable:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

	urls := []string{
		"https://www.easyjet.com/",
		"https://www.skyscanner.de/",
		"https://www.ryanair.com",
		"https://wizzair.com/",
		"https://www.swiss.com/",
	}

	wg := waitgroup.NewWaitGroup(3)

	for _, url := range urls {

		urlToCheck := url
		wg.Add(func() {
			fmt.Printf("%s: checking\n", urlToCheck)
			res, err := http.Get(urlToCheck)
			if err != nil {
				fmt.Println("Error: %v")
			} else {
				defer res.Body.Close()
				fmt.Printf("%s: result: %v\n", urlToCheck, err)
			}
		})

	}

	wg.Wait()
	fmt.Println("Finished")

}

Handling errors

If you want to handle errors, there is also an ErrorGroup. This uses the same principles as a normal WaitGroup with a small twist.

First of all, you can only add functions which returns just an error.

Second, as soon as one of the queued items fail, the rest will be cancelled:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

	ctx := context.Background()

	wg, ctx := waitgroup.NewErrorGroup(ctx, tc.size)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error: %v")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	wg.Add(func() error {
		return nil
	})

	wg.Add(func() error {
		return errors.New("An error occurred")
	})

	if err := wg.Wait(); err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error: %v")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

}

You can also add multiple functions in one step:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-waitgroup"
)

func main() {

	ctx := context.Background()

	wg, ctx := waitgroup.NewErrorGroup(ctx, tc.size)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error: %v")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	wg.Add(
		func() error {
			return nil
		},
		func() error {
			return errors.New("An error occurred")
		},
	)

	if err := wg.Wait(); err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Error: %v")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

}