task Class (Concurrency Runtime)

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07/10/2012

The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) task class. A task object represents work that can be executed asynchronously, and concurrently with other tasks and parallel work produced by parallel algorithms in the Concurrency Runtime. It produces a result of type _ResultType on successful completion. Tasks of type task<void> produce no result. A task can be waited upon and canceled independently of other tasks. It can also be composed with other tasks using continuations(then), and join(when_all) and choice(when_any) patterns.

template <
   typename _Type
>
class task;

template <>
class task<void>;

template<
   typename _ReturnType
>
class task;

Parameters

_Type
T
_ReturnType
The result type of this task.

Members

Public Typedefs

Name	Description
result_type	The type of the result an object of this class produces.

Public Constructors

Name	Description
task::task Constructor	Overloaded. Constructs a task object.

Public Methods

Name	Description
task::get Method	Overloaded. Returns the result this task produced. If the task is not in a terminal state, a call to get will wait for the task to finish. This method does not return a value when called on a task with a result_type of void.
task::is_apartment_aware Method	Determines whether the task unwraps a Windows Runtime IAsyncInfo interface or is descended from such a task.
task::then Method	Overloaded. Adds a continuation task to this task.
task::wait Method	Waits for this task to reach a terminal state. It is possible for wait to execute the task inline, if all of the tasks dependencies are satisfied, and it has not already been picked up for execution by a background worker.

Public Operators

Name	Description
task::operator!= Operator	Overloaded. Determines whether two task objects represent different internal tasks.
task::operator= Operator	Overloaded. Replaces the contents of one task object with another.
task::operator== Operator	Overloaded. Determines whether two task objects represent the same internal task.

Remarks

For more information, see Task Parallelism (Concurrency Runtime).

Inheritance Hierarchy

task

Requirements

Header: ppltasks.h

Namespace: concurrency