Go: One producer many consumers

Question

So I have seen a lot of ways of implementing one consumer and many producers in Go - the classic fanIn function from the Concurrency in Go talk.

What I want is a fanOut

Answer 1

This solution below is a bit contrived, but it works for me:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
    "crypto/rand"
    "encoding/binary"
)

func handleNewChannels(arrchangen chan [](chan uint32),
                       intchangen chan (chan uint32)) {
    currarr := []chan uint32{}
    arrchangen <- currarr
    for {
        newchan := <-intchangen
        currarr = append(currarr, newchan)
        arrchangen <- currarr
    }
}

func sendToChannels(arrchangen chan [](chan uint32)) {
    tick := time.Tick(1 * time.Second)
    currarr := <-arrchangen
    for {
        select {
        case <-tick:
            sent := false
            var n uint32
            binary.Read(rand.Reader, binary.LittleEndian, &n)
            for i := 0 ; i < len(currarr) ; i++ {
                currarr[i] <- n
                sent = true
            }
            if sent {
                fmt.Println("Sent generated ", n)
            }
        case newarr := <-arrchangen:
            currarr = newarr
        }
    }
}
func handleChannel(tchan chan uint32) {
    for {
        val := <-tchan
        fmt.Println("Got the value ", val)
    }
}

func createChannels(intchangen chan (chan uint32)) {
    othertick := time.Tick(5 * time.Second)
    for {
        <-othertick
        fmt.Println("Creating new channel! ")
        newchan := make(chan uint32)
        intchangen <- newchan
        go handleChannel(newchan)
    }
}

func main() {
    arrchangen := make(chan [](chan uint32))
    intchangen := make(chan (chan uint32))
    go handleNewChannels(arrchangen, intchangen)
    go sendToChannels(arrchangen)
    createChannels(intchangen)
}