CancelReader

A cancelable reader for Go

This package is based on the fantastic work of Erik Geiser in Charm's Bubble Tea framework.

Usage

NewReader returns a reader with a Cancel function. If the input reader is a File, the cancel function can be used to interrupt a blocking Read call. In this case, the cancel function returns true if the call was canceled successfully. If the input reader is not a File, the cancel function does nothing and always returns false.

r, err := cancelreader.NewReader(file)
if err != nil {
    // handle error
    ...
}

// cancel after five seconds
go func() {
    time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
    r.Cancel()
}()

// keep reading
for {
    var buf [1024]byte
    _, err := r.Read(buf[:])

    if errors.Is(err, cancelreader.ErrCanceled) {
        fmt.Println("canceled!")
        break
    }
    if err != nil {
        // handle other errors
        ...
    }

    // handle data
    ...
}

Implementations

• The Linux implementation is based on the epoll mechanism
• The BSD and macOS implementation is based on the kqueue mechanism
• The generic Unix implementation is based on the posix select syscall

Caution

The Windows implementation is based on WaitForMultipleObject with overlapping reads from CONIN$. At this point it only supports canceling reads from os.Stdin.