This is for an iOS app written in Xamarin. All my application code runs in the main thread (i.e. the UI thread).
The UI code does something as follows:
public async void ButtonClicked()
{
StartSpinner();
var data = await UpdateData();
StopSpinner();
UpdateScreen(data);
}
The UpdateData function does something as follows:
public Task<Data> UpdateData()
{
var data = await FetchFromServer();
TriggerCacheUpdate();
return data;
}
TriggerCacheUpdate ends up calling the following function defined below
public Task RefreshCache()
{
var data = await FetchMoreDataFromServer();
UpdateInternalDataStructures();
}
My question is how should TriggerCacheUpdate be written? The requirements are:
- Can't be async, I don't want
UpdateDataand consequentlyButtonClickedto wait forRefreshCacheto complete before continuing. UpdateInternalDataStructuresneeds to execute on the main (UI) thread, i.e. the thread that all the other code shown above executes on.
Here are a few alternatives I came up with:
public void TriggerCacheUpdate()
{
RefreshCache();
}
The above works but generates a compiler warning. Moreover exception handling from RefreshCache doesn't work.
public void TriggerCacheUpdate()
{
Task.Run(async() =>
{
await RefreshCache();
});
}
The above violates requirement 2 as UpdateInternalDataStructures is not executed on the same thread as everything else.
A possible alternative that I believe works is:
private event EventHandler Done;
public void TriggerCacheUpdate()
{
this.task = RefreshCache();
Done += async(sender, e) => await this.task;
}
Task RefreshCache() {
var data = await FetchMoreDataFromServer();
UpdateInternalDataStructures();
if (Done != null) {
Done(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
Does the above work? I haven't ran into any problems thus far with my limited testing. Is there a better way to write TriggerCacheUpdate?
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