r8k / ticker

tick a function every `time.Duration` for Golang

ticker

Schedule the repeated execution of a function every time.Duration.

View the docs.

Installation

$ go get github.com/r8k/ticker

Example

package main

import "fmt"
import "time"
import "github.com/r8k/ticker"

func print(args []interface{}) {
    fmt.Printf("Hello World !! Got %d args\n", len(args))
    for i, s := range args {
        fmt.Println(i, s)
    }
}

func main() {
    stop := ticker.TickEvery(print, time.Second*3, []interface{}{"a", 2})
    time.Sleep(time.Second * 10) // sleep for 10 seconds, to see 3 print invocations
    stop <- true                 // send a stop signal
    time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)  // sleep for 2 more seconds, to ensure, it stopped :)
}

Run the above example

go run main.go

And you would see:

❯ go run main.go 
Hello World !! I got 2 args
0 a
1 2
Hello World !! I got 2 args
0 a
1 2
Hello World !! I got 2 args
0 a
1 2

License

MIT