Notification of items dropped from sliding/dropping buffers

Question

I would like to know when items are dropped from sliding or dropping buffers, so that I can do things like logging and keeping metrics.

The attached patch has one possible mechanism for doing this, by adding an optional second argument to sliding-buffer and dropping-buffer - a one-argument function that will be called with dropped items.

Answer 1

Comment made by: gshayban

Hi Chris, I think this use-case can be handled the combination of a go process + collection directly without modification to the existing buffer impls. I'd be concerned about making buffers pay for a non-essential field.

I like using the library primitives to make sure they are minimally complete.

(If you really really want to make your own buffer, no one will stop you =) It's still an impl protocol, but it's relatively stable. Just beware that buffer operations run within the context of a channel lock, so make sure to dispatch the overflow function to the async threadpool using dispatch/run).

Answer 2

Reference: https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/ASYNC-55 (reported by cperkins)