I want to wait for a Task
I felt the Task.Delay()
task and CancellationTokenSource
in the other answers a bit much for my use case in a tight-ish networking loop.
And although Joe Hoag's Crafting a Task.TimeoutAfter Method on MSDN blogs was inspiring, I was a little weary of using TimeoutException
for flow control for the same reason as above, because timeouts are expected more frequently than not.
So I went with this, which also handles the optimizations mentioned in the blog:
public static async Task BeforeTimeout(this Task task, int millisecondsTimeout)
{
if (task.IsCompleted) return true;
if (millisecondsTimeout == 0) return false;
if (millisecondsTimeout == Timeout.Infinite)
{
await Task.WhenAll(task);
return true;
}
var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource
An example use case is as such:
var receivingTask = conn.ReceiveAsync(ct);
while (!await receivingTask.BeforeTimeout(keepAliveMilliseconds))
{
// Send keep-alive
}
// Read and do something with data
var data = await receivingTask;