Cómo: Cancelar una tarea y sus elementos secundarios

En estos ejemplos se muestra cómo realizar las tareas siguientes:

  1. Crear e iniciar una tarea cancelable.

  2. Pasar un token de cancelación a un delegado de usuario y, opcionalmente, a la instancia de la tarea.

  3. Observar y responder a la solicitud de cancelación en el delegado de usuario.

  4. Opcionalmente, observar en el subproceso que realiza la llamada que la tarea se canceló.

El subproceso que realiza la llamada no finaliza la tarea forzosamente, sino que solo señala que se solicita la cancelación. Si la tarea ya se está ejecutando, es el delegado de usuario el que debe observar la solicitud y responder según corresponda. Si la cancelación se solicita antes de ejecutarse la tarea, el delegado de usuario nunca se ejecuta y el objeto de tarea pasa al estado Cancelado.

Ejemplo

En este ejemplo se muestra cómo finalizar un objeto Task y sus elementos secundarios en respuesta a una solicitud de cancelación. También se muestra que, cuando un delegado de usuario finaliza con una excepción OperationCanceledException, el subproceso que realiza la llamada puede usar opcionalmente el método Wait o el método WaitAll para esperar a que las tareas finalicen. En este caso, el delegado debe usar un bloque try-catch para controlar las excepciones en el subproceso que realiza la llamada.

' How to: Cancel a Task and Its Children
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Threading.Tasks

Module CancelATask

    Sub Main()

        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to start. Press 'c' to cancel.")
        Console.ReadKey()

        Dim tokenSource As New CancellationTokenSource()
        Dim token As CancellationToken = tokenSource.Token

        ' Store references to the tasks so that we can wait on them and
        ' observe their status after cancellation.
        Dim tasks(10) As Task

        ' Request cancellation of a single task when the token source is canceled.
        ' Pass the token to the user delegate, and also to the task so it can 
        ' handle the exception correctly.
        tasks(0) = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub() DoSomeWork(1, token), token)

        ' Request cancellation of a task and its children. Note the token is passed
        ' to (1) the user delegate and (2) as the second argument to StartNew, so 
        ' that the task instance can correctly handle the OperationCanceledException.
        tasks(1) = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub()

                                             ' Create some cancelable child tasks.
                                             For i As Integer = 2 To 10

                                                 ' For each child task, pass the same token
                                                 ' to each user delegate and to StartNew.
                                                 tasks(i) = Task.Factory.StartNew(Sub(iteration) DoSomeWork(iteration, token), i, token)
                                                 ' Passing the same token again to do work on the parent task. 
                                                 ' All will be signaled by the call to tokenSource.Cancel below.
                                                 DoSomeWork(2, token)
                                             Next
                                         End Sub _
                                , token)

        ' Give the tasks a second to start.
        Thread.Sleep(1000)

        ' Request cancellation from the UI thread.
        If Console.ReadKey().KeyChar = "c"c Then

            tokenSource.Cancel()
            Console.WriteLine("\nTask cancellation requested.")

            ' Optional: Observe the change in the Status property on the task.
            ' It is not necessary to wait on tasks that have canceled. However,
            ' if you do wait, you must enclose the call in a try-catch block to
            ' catch the OperationCanceledExceptions that are thrown. If you do 
            ' not wait, no OCE is thrown if the token that was passed to the 
            ' StartNew method is the same token that requested the cancellation.
        End If


        Try

            Task.WaitAll(tasks)

        Catch e As AggregateException

            ' For demonstration purposes, show the OCE message.
            For Each v In e.InnerExceptions
                Console.WriteLine("msg: " + v.Message)
            Next
        End Try

        ' Prove that the tasks are now all in a canceled state.
        For i As Integer = 0 To tasks.Length
            Console.WriteLine("task(0) status is now 1", i, tasks(i).Status)
        Next

        ' Keep the console window open while the
        ' task completes its output.
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub

    Sub DoSomeWork(ByVal taskNum As Integer, ByVal ct As CancellationToken)

        ' Was cancellation already requested?
        If ct.IsCancellationRequested = True Then
            Console.WriteLine("We were cancelled before we got started.")
            Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to quit.")
            ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested()
        End If

        Dim maxIterations As Integer = 1000

        ' NOTE!!! An "OperationCanceledException was unhandled
        ' by user code" error will be raised here if "Just My Code"
        ' is enabled on your computer. On Express editions JMC is
        ' enabled and cannot be disabled. The exception is benign.
        ' Just press F5 to continue executing your code.
        For i As Integer = 0 To maxIterations
            ' Do a bit of work. Not too much.
            Dim sw As New SpinWait()
            For j As Integer = 0 To 3000
                sw.SpinOnce()
            Next
            Console.WriteLine("...0 ", taskNum)
            If ct.IsCancellationRequested Then

                Console.WriteLine("bye from 0.", taskNum)
                Console.WriteLine("\nPress Enter to quit.")

                ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested()
            End If
        Next

    End Sub

End Module

namespace CancellationWithOCE
{
    using System;
    using System.Threading;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to start. Press 'c' to cancel.");
            Console.ReadKey();

            var tokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
            var token = tokenSource.Token;

            // Store references to the tasks so that we can wait on them and
            // observe their status after cancellation.
            Task[] tasks = new Task[10];

            // Request cancellation of a single task when the token source is canceled.
            // Pass the token to the user delegate, and also to the task so it can 
            // handle the exception correctly.
            tasks[0] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => DoSomeWork(1, token), token);

            // Request cancellation of a task and its children. Note the token is passed
            // to (1) the user delegate and (2) as the second argument to StartNew, so 
            // that the task instance can correctly handle the OperationCanceledException.
            tasks[1] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
            {
                // Create some cancelable child tasks.
                for (int i = 2; i < 10; i++)
                {
                    // For each child task, pass the same token
                    // to each user delegate and to StartNew.
                    tasks[i] = Task.Factory.StartNew(iteration =>
                                DoSomeWork((int)iteration, token), i, token);
                }
                // Passing the same token again to do work on the parent task. 
                // All will be signaled by the call to tokenSource.Cancel below.
                DoSomeWork(2, token);
            }, token);

            // Give the tasks a second to start.
            Thread.Sleep(1000);

            // Request cancellation from the UI thread.
            if (Console.ReadKey().KeyChar == 'c')
            {
                tokenSource.Cancel();
                Console.WriteLine("\nTask cancellation requested.");

                // Optional: Observe the change in the Status property on the task.
                // It is not necessary to wait on tasks that have canceled. However,
                // if you do wait, you must enclose the call in a try-catch block to
                // catch the OperationCanceledExceptions that are thrown. If you do 
                // not wait, no OCE is thrown if the token that was passed to the 
                // StartNew method is the same token that requested the cancellation.

                #region Optional_WaitOnTasksToComplete
                try
                {
                    Task.WaitAll(tasks);
                }
                catch (AggregateException e)
                {
                    // For demonstration purposes, show the OCE message.
                    foreach (var v in e.InnerExceptions)
                        Console.WriteLine("msg: " + v.Message);
                }

                // Prove that the tasks are now all in a canceled state.
                for (int i = 0; i < tasks.Length; i++)
                    Console.WriteLine("task[{0}] status is now {1}", i, tasks[i].Status);
                #endregion
            }

            // Keep the console window open while the
            // task completes its output.
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void DoSomeWork(int taskNum, CancellationToken ct)
        {
            // Was cancellation already requested?
            if (ct.IsCancellationRequested)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("We were cancelled before we got started.");
                Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to quit.");
                ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
            }
            int maxIterations = 1000;

            // NOTE!!! A benign "OperationCanceledException was unhandled
            // by user code" error might be raised here. Press F5 to continue. Or,
            //  to avoid the error, uncheck the "Enable Just My Code"
            // option under Tools > Options > Debugging.
            for (int i = 0; i < maxIterations; i++)
            {
                // Do a bit of work. Not too much.
                var sw = new SpinWait();
                for (int j = 0; j < 3000; j++) sw.SpinOnce();
                Console.WriteLine("...{0} ", taskNum);
                if (ct.IsCancellationRequested)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("bye from {0}.", taskNum);
                    Console.WriteLine("\nPress Enter to quit.");

                    ct.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

La clase System.Threading.Tasks.Task está totalmente integrada con el modelo de cancelación basado en los tipos System.Threading.CancellationToken y System.Threading.CancellationTokenSource. Para obtener más información, vea Cancelación y Cancelación de tareas.

Vea también

Referencia

System.Threading.CancellationTokenSource

System.Threading.CancellationToken

System.Threading.Tasks.Task

System.Threading.Tasks.Task<TResult>

Conceptos

Tareas anidadas y tareas secundarias

Expresiones lambda en PLINQ y TPL

Otros recursos

Paralelismo de tareas (Task Parallel Library)