ada Implementing the producer-consumer pattern Producer-Consumer with a sampling consumer

Example

This example uses the main procedure as the producer task. In Ada the main procedure always runs in a task separate from all other tasks in the program, see minimal example.

------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Sampling Consumer --
------------------------------------------------------------------
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Sampling_PC is
   protected Buf is
      procedure Write(Item : in Integer);
      function Read return Integer;
      procedure Set_Done;
      function Get_Done return Boolean;
   private
      Value : Integer := Integer'First;
      Is_Done : Boolean := False;
   end Buf;
   protected body Buf is
      procedure Write(Item : in Integer) is
      begin
         Value := Item;
      end Write;
      function Read return Integer is
      begin
         return Value;
      end Read;
      procedure Set_Done is
      begin
         Is_Done := True;
      end Set_Done;
      function Get_Done return Boolean is
      begin
         return Is_Done;
      end Get_Done;
   end Buf;

   task Consumer;
   task body Consumer is
   begin
      while not Buf.Get_Done loop
          Put_Line("Consumer read" & Integer'Image(Buf.Read));
      end loop;
   end Consumer;

begin
   for I in 1..10 loop
     Put_Line("Producer writing" & Integer'Image(I));
     Buf.Write(I);
   end loop;
   Buf.Set_Done;
end Sampling_PC;