added error handling to worker pool

concurrency/worker_unbuffed/main.go

@@ -11,16 +11,19 @@ package main
 // queue that has no guarantee it will ever be worked on.
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"log"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
 )
 
 // Worker must be implemented by types that want to use
 // the work pool.
 // The Worker interface declares a single method called Task
 type Worker interface {
-	Task()
+	Task() error
 }
 
 // Pool provides a pool of goroutines that can execute any Worker
@@ -29,14 +32,16 @@ type Worker interface {
 // pool of goroutines and will have methods that process the work. The type declares two
 // fields, one named work, which is a channel of the Worker interface type, and a sync.WaitGroup named wg.
 type Pool struct {
-	work chan Worker
-	wg   sync.WaitGroup
+	work    chan Worker
+	wg      sync.WaitGroup
+	errChan chan error
 }
 
 // New creates a new work pool.
 func New(maxGoroutines int) *Pool {
 	p := Pool{
-		work: make(chan Worker),
+		work:    make(chan Worker),
+		errChan: make(chan error),
 	}
 	p.wg.Add(maxGoroutines)
 	// The for range loop blocks until there’s a Worker interface value to receive on the
@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ func New(maxGoroutines int) *Pool {
 	for i := 0; i < maxGoroutines; i++ {
 		go func() {
 			for w := range p.work {
-				w.Task()
+				p.errChan <- w.Task()
 			}
 			p.wg.Done()
 		}()
@@ -60,8 +65,12 @@ func New(maxGoroutines int) *Pool {
 // work channel. Since the work channel is an unbuffered channel, the caller must wait
 // for a goroutine from the pool to receive it. This is what we want, because the caller
 // needs the guarantee that the work being submitted is being worked on once the call to Run returns.
-func (p *Pool) Run(w Worker) {
+func (p *Pool) Run(w Worker) (err error) {
 	p.work <- w
+	select {
+	case err = <-p.errChan:
+	}
+	return
 }
 
 // Shutdown waits for all the goroutines to shutdown.
@@ -71,6 +80,7 @@ func (p *Pool) Run(w Worker) {
 // they have terminated.
 func (p *Pool) Shutdown() {
 	close(p.work)
+	close(p.errChan)
 	p.wg.Wait()
 }
 
@@ -78,8 +88,10 @@ var names = []string{
 	"steve",
 	"bob",
 	"mary",
-	"therese",
 	"jason",
+	"Bob",
+	"Lee",
+	"Jane",
 }
 
 // namePrinter provides special support for printing names.
@@ -88,9 +100,13 @@ type namePrinter struct {
 }
 
 // Task implements the Worker interface.
-func (m *namePrinter) Task() {
+func (m *namePrinter) Task() error {
+	time.Sleep(time.Second * 1)
+	if m.name == "jason" {
+		return errors.New("Invalid name")
+	}
 	log.Println(m.name)
-	time.Sleep(time.Second)
+	return nil
 }
 
 // main is the entry point for all Go programs.
@@ -98,22 +114,23 @@ func main() {
 	// Create a work pool with 2 goroutines.
 	p := New(2)
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	wg.Add(100 * len(names))
-	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
-		// Iterate over the slice of names.
-		for _, name := range names {
-			// Create a namePrinter and provide the
-			// specific name.
-			np := namePrinter{
-				name: name,
-			}
-			go func() {
-				// Submit the task to be worked on. When RunTask
-				// returns we know it is being handled.
-				p.Run(&np)
-				wg.Done()
-			}()
+	wg.Add(len(names))
+	// Iterate over the slice of names.
+	for _, name := range names {
+		// Create a namePrinter and provide the
+		// specific name.
+		np := namePrinter{
+			name: name,
 		}
+		go func() {
+			// Submit the task to be worked on. When RunTask
+			// returns we know it is being handled.
+			if err := p.Run(&np); err != nil {
+				spew.Dump(err)
+			}
+			wg.Done()
+		}()
+
 	}
 	wg.Wait()
 	// Shutdown the work pool and wait for all existing work