AsyncEventHandlers 1.0.1

AsyncEventHandlers

This library provides true thread-safe asynchronus event handlers for .NET.\

Setup

Just install the latest release from NuGet. Alternatively you can download it from the Releases tab aswell.

Usage

Note that when registering/unregistering a lot from different threads, should consider using AsyncEventHandler instead of AsyncEventHandlerDelegate as the latter uses the built-in non thread-safe registering/unregistering mechanism.

Using the delegate

The AsyncEventHandlerDelegate delegate is basically being used like the built-in EventHandler type apart from the invocation. See below.

Declaring an event:

public event AsyncEventHandlerDelegate? MyEvent;

// Or with custom event args:
public class MyAsyncEventArgs : AsyncEventArgs
{
    public string? Message { get; set; }
}

public event AsyncEventHandlerDelegate<MyAsyncEventArgs>? MyCustomEvent;

Invoking the event:

try
{
    await MyEvent.InvokeAsync(this, new AsyncEventArgs());
    // or with a cancellation token
    var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
    await MyEvent.InvokeAsync(this, new AsyncEventArgs(), cts.Token);
}
catch (OperationCanceledException)
{
    // Cancellation token was cancelled
}
catch (ObjectDisposedException)
{
    // Cancellation token was disposed
}
catch (Exception)
{
    // Some registered event(s) have thrown an exception
}

Registering/Unregistering to the event:

class WebsocketServer
{
    public event AsyncEventHandlerDelegate? MyEvent;
}

var ws = new WebsocketServer();
ws.MyEvent += Ws_MyEvent;   // Register
ws.MyEvent -= Ws_MyEvent;   // Unregister

static Task Ws_MyEvent(object? sender, AsyncEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("The cancellation token was cancelled!");
    }

    return Task.CompletedTask;
}

Using the AsyncEventHandler class

The AsyncEventHandler type is completely thread-safe, no matter how many events are registered/unregistered from different threads. It can almost be used as the delegate described before apart from the declaration.

Declaring an event:

public AsyncEventHandler MyEvent = new AsyncEventHandler();

// Or with custom event args:
public class MyAsyncEventArgs : AsyncEventArgs
{
    public string? Message { get; set; }
}

public AsyncEventHandlerDelegate<MyAsyncEventArgs> MyCustomEvent = new AsyncEventHandler<MyAsyncEventArgs>();

Registering/Unregistering to the event:

class WebsocketServer
{
    public AsyncEventHandler MyEvent = new AsyncEventHandler();
}

var ws = new WebsocketServer();
ws.MyEvent += Ws_MyEvent;   // Register
ws.MyEvent -= Ws_MyEvent;   // Unregister
// Or use the methods
ws.MyEvent.Register(Ws_MyEvent);
ws.MyEvent.Unregister(Ws_MyEvent);

static Task Ws_MyEvent(object? sender, AsyncEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("The cancellation token was cancelled!");
    }

    return Task.CompletedTask;
}

Sample projects

More samples can be found in the Samples directory.

License

AsyncEventHandlers is licensed under The Unlicense, see LICENSE.txt for more information.