platform/vcs-log/impl/src/com/intellij/vcs/log/data/SingleTaskController.java

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package com.intellij.vcs.log.data;

import com.intellij.util.Consumer;
import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Collects incoming requests into a list, and provides them to an underlying background task via {@link #popRequests()}. <br/>
 * Such task is started immediately after the first request arrives, if no other task is currently running. <br/>
 * A task indicates its completion by calling {@link #taskCompleted(Object)} and providing a result which is immediately passed to the
 * result handler.
 * <p/>
 * The purpose of this class is to provide a single thread, which processes incoming requests in the background and continues to process
 * new ones if they arrive while the previous ones were processed. An alternative would be a long living thread which always checks some
 * queue for new requests - but current approach starts a thread only when needed, and finishes it once all requests are processed.
 * <p/>
 * The class is thread-safe: all operations are synchronized.
 */
public abstract class SingleTaskController<Request, Result> {

  @NotNull private final Consumer<Result> myResultHandler;
  @NotNull private final Object LOCK = new Object();

  @NotNull private List<Request> myAwaitingRequests;
  private boolean myActive;

  public SingleTaskController(@NotNull Consumer<Result> handler) {
    myResultHandler = handler;
    myAwaitingRequests = ContainerUtil.newArrayList();
  }

  /**
   * Posts a request into a queue. <br/>
   * If there is no active task, starts a new one. <br/>
   * Otherwise just remembers the request in the queue. Later it can be achieved by {@link #popRequests()}.
   */
  public final void request(@NotNull Request requests) {
    synchronized (LOCK) {
      myAwaitingRequests.add(requests);
      if (!myActive) {
        startNewBackgroundTask();
        myActive = true;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Starts new task on a background thread. <br/>
   * <b>NB:</b> Don't invoke StateController methods inside this method, otherwise a deadlock will happen.
   */
  protected abstract void startNewBackgroundTask();

  /**
   * Returns all awaiting requests and clears the queue. <br/>
   * I.e. the second call to this method will return an empty list (unless new requests came via {@link #request(Object)}.
   */
  @NotNull
  protected final List<Request> popRequests() {
    synchronized (LOCK) {
      List<Request> requests = myAwaitingRequests;
      myAwaitingRequests = ContainerUtil.newArrayList();
      return requests;
    }
  }

  /**
   * The underlying currently active task should use this method to inform that it has completed the execution. <br/>
   * The result is immediately passed to the result handler specified in the constructor.
   */
  protected final void taskCompleted(@NotNull Result result) {
    myResultHandler.consume(result);
    synchronized (LOCK) {
      if (myAwaitingRequests.isEmpty()) {
        myActive = false;
      }
      else {
        startNewBackgroundTask();
      }
    }
  }

}