Function channel

pub fn channel<T: Clone>(capacity: usize) -> (Sender<T>, Receiver<T>)

Available on crate feature sync only.

Create a bounded, multi-producer, multi-consumer channel where each sent value is broadcasted to all active receivers.

Note: The actual capacity may be greater than the provided capacity.

All data sent on Sender will become available on every active Receiver in the same order as it was sent.

The Sender can be cloned to send to the same channel from multiple points in the process or it can be used concurrently from an Arc. New Receiver handles are created by calling Sender::subscribe.

If all Receiver handles are dropped, the send method will return a SendError. Similarly, if all Sender handles are dropped, the recv method will return a RecvError.

Examples

use tokio::sync::broadcast;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let (tx, mut rx1) = broadcast::channel(16);
    let mut rx2 = tx.subscribe();

    tokio::spawn(async move {
        assert_eq!(rx1.recv().await.unwrap(), 10);
        assert_eq!(rx1.recv().await.unwrap(), 20);
    });

    tokio::spawn(async move {
        assert_eq!(rx2.recv().await.unwrap(), 10);
        assert_eq!(rx2.recv().await.unwrap(), 20);
    });

    tx.send(10).unwrap();
    tx.send(20).unwrap();
}

Panics

This will panic if capacity is equal to 0 or larger than usize::MAX / 2.