Ability to stop parsing from listener
MAXakaWIZARD opened this issue · 8 comments
Is there any ability to stop parsing process from listener?
What do you mean stop ?
Le sam. 12 mars 2016 à 21:59, Max Grigorian notifications@github.com a
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Is there any ability to stop parsing process from listener?
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@soyuka I mean for example I have very large file and need to stop parsing earlier (process only few items from the start).
You have to implement a listener that allows you to stop after x items. You'll have to handle yourself how to start at the previous and etc.
IMO, you may not need to implement this as this library ables you to handle objects with a very low memory footprint.
I need this anyway, because file parsing takes 1 min to process all file and I need to break early. And I do not see how this can be done from listener. Maybe I'm missing something.
Would be a relatively easy change if you want to submit a pull request. You'd just need to add a method to the parser called stop() which would set a flag which would cause the parse() method to break out of the loop reading characters.
Happy to look at a PR if you want to submit it.
@gonzofy I'm looking forward to make a PR for this. In your proposed solution there must be access to parser instance from inside the listener. But I don't think this is a big deal.
Exactly. I don't think you can simply stop the parsing without modifying the parser itself since that loop essentially runs the application thread until it's finished parsing the file.