example-jquery.js

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# Copyright (C) 2014 Luís A. Bastião Silva and Eriksson Monteiro
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# Authors: Luís A. Bastião Silva <bastiao@ua.pt>
           Eriksson Monteiro <eriksson.monteiro@ua.pt>

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/* Small trick of jQuery to avoid caching URL requests */
$.ajaxSetup({
    // Disable caching of AJAX responses
    cache: false
});



/**
 * 2 is the size of threadpool 
 * 600 is the interval to fetch new tasks. 
 */
var threadpool = new ThreadPool(2, 600);

function myTask(number)
{
    // Execute myStaff 
    
    var self = this;
    $.get("http://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max=100&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new", 
        function (data) 
        {
            console.log("This is my Task, n: " + number);
            console.log("This is the returned value: " + data);
            $("#content").append(data + "</br>");
            // Set this taskl to be completed. 
            self.complete();        
        }, "html" );
    
};

var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 1, 2);
threadpool.run(runnable);
var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 1, 3);
threadpool.run(runnable);
var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 1, 5);
threadpool.run(runnable);
var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 10, 6);
threadpool.run(runnable);
var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 1, 7);
threadpool.run(runnable);
var runnable = new Runnable(myTask, 1, 8);
threadpool.run(runnable);

runnable.setPriority(10);



threadpool.destroy();