Boost Process continuously read output
Hi, I'm trying to read outputs/logs from different processes and display them in a GUI. The processes will be running for long time and produce huge output. I'm planning to stream the output from those processes and display them according to my needs. All the while allow my gui application to take user inputs and perform other actions. What I've done here is, from main thread launch two threads for each process. One for launching the process and another for reading output from the process. This is the solution I've come up thus far. // Process Class class MyProcess { namespace bp = boost::process; boost::asio::io_service mService; // member variable of the class bp::ipstream mStream // member variable of the class std::thread mProcessThread, mReaderThread // member variables of the class. public void launch(); }; void MyProcess::launch() { mReaderThread = std::thread([&](){ std::string line; while(getline(mStream, line)) { std::cout << line << std::endl; } }); mProcessThread = std::thread([&]() { auto c = boost::child ("/path/of/executable", bp::std_out > mStream, mService); mService.run(); mStream.pipe().close(); } } // Main Gui class class MyGui { MyProcess process; void launchProcess(); } MyGui::launchProcess() { process.launch(); doSomethingElse(); } The program is working as expected so far. But I'm not sure if this is the correct solution. Please let me know if there's any alternative/better/correct solution Thanks, Surya
On 16 May 2018 at 05:11, Surya Kiran Gullapalli via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to read outputs/logs from different processes and display them in a GUI. The processes will be running for long time and produce huge output. I'm planning to stream the output from those processes and display them according to my needs. All the while allow my gui application to take user inputs and perform other actions.
What I've done here is, from main thread launch two threads for each process. One for launching the process and another for reading output from the process.
This is the solution I've come up thus far.
// Process Class class MyProcess { namespace bp = boost::process; boost::asio::io_service mService; // member variable of the class bp::ipstream mStream // member variable of the class std::thread mProcessThread, mReaderThread // member variables of the class.
public void launch(); };
void MyProcess::launch() { mReaderThread = std::thread([&](){ std::string line; while(getline(mStream, line)) { std::cout << line << std::endl; } });
mProcessThread = std::thread([&]() { auto c = boost::child ("/path/of/executable", bp::std_out > mStream, mService);
mService.run(); mStream.pipe().close(); } }
// Main Gui class class MyGui { MyProcess process; void launchProcess(); }
MyGui::launchProcess() { process.launch(); doSomethingElse(); }
The program is working as expected so far. But I'm not sure if this is the correct solution. Please let me know if there's any alternative/better/correct solution
There is a place to put/ask this kind of questions: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ degski -- *"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein*
Well, I do not know what is wrong with the question. I'm asking if this is the right way to do the stuff with boost libraries. If I put this question somewhere else, I'll be crucified for cross posting. Surya. On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:48 AM, degski via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On 16 May 2018 at 05:11, Surya Kiran Gullapalli via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to read outputs/logs from different processes and display them in a GUI. The processes will be running for long time and produce huge output. I'm planning to stream the output from those processes and display them according to my needs. All the while allow my gui application to take user inputs and perform other actions.
What I've done here is, from main thread launch two threads for each process. One for launching the process and another for reading output from the process.
This is the solution I've come up thus far.
// Process Class class MyProcess { namespace bp = boost::process; boost::asio::io_service mService; // member variable of the class bp::ipstream mStream // member variable of the class std::thread mProcessThread, mReaderThread // member variables of the class.
public void launch(); };
void MyProcess::launch() { mReaderThread = std::thread([&](){ std::string line; while(getline(mStream, line)) { std::cout << line << std::endl; } });
mProcessThread = std::thread([&]() { auto c = boost::child ("/path/of/executable", bp::std_out > mStream, mService);
mService.run(); mStream.pipe().close(); } }
// Main Gui class class MyGui { MyProcess process; void launchProcess(); }
MyGui::launchProcess() { process.launch(); doSomethingElse(); }
The program is working as expected so far. But I'm not sure if this is the correct solution. Please let me know if there's any alternative/better/correct solution
There is a place to put/ask this kind of questions: https://codereview. stackexchange.com/
degski -- *"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein*
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