EazyPipe (OLD - NEEDS TO BE UPDATED)

Piping made eazy!

EazyPipe is a Java library that aims to make working in a multithreaded environment easier. It achieves that by providing a set of useful tools for starting threads and/or synchronizing them following the producer-consumer pattern.

Pipe start object instantiation

EazyPipe start = new EazyPipe();

Implementing pipeable methods: standard signature

public class YourProducerClass
{
  public void yourProducerMethod(ThreadPipe pipe)
  {
    ...
    pipe.output("I'm a producer");
  }
}

public class YourConsumerClass
{
  public void yourConsumerMethod(ThreadPipe pipe)
  {
    ...
    pipe.output(pipe.input() + ", and I'm a consumer!");
  }
}

Pipeable object instantiation

YourProducerClass producer = new YourProducerClass();
YourConsumerClass consumer = new YourConsumerClass();

Pipeable pipeProd = new Pipeable(producer, "yourProducerMethod");
Pipeable pipeCons = new Pipeable(consumer, "yourConsumerMethod");

Pipeline running

EasyPipe pipeOut = start.runPipe(pipeProd).runPipe(pipeCons);

Output fetching example (obsolete)

ConcurrentLinkedQueue channel = pipeOut.getOutput();
while (true)
{
  String s = (String) channel.poll();
  if (s != null)
    System.out.println(s);
}