task Class (Concurrency Runtime)
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 |
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result_type |
The type of the result an object of this class produces. |
Public Constructors
Name |
Description |
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Overloaded. Constructs a task object. |
Public Methods
Name |
Description |
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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. |
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Determines whether the task unwraps a Windows Runtime IAsyncInfo interface or is descended from such a task. |
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Determines if the task is completed. |
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Returns the scheduler for this task |
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Overloaded. Adds a continuation task to this task. |
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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 |
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Overloaded. Determines whether two task objects represent different internal tasks. |
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Overloaded. Replaces the contents of one task object with another. |
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Overloaded. Determines whether two task objects represent the same internal task. |
Remarks
The task class and related types defined in ppltasks.h are portable across platforms and are the basis for the C++ REST SDK, a portable library for asynchronous HTTP .
For more information, see Task Parallelism (Concurrency Runtime).
Inheritance Hierarchy
task
Requirements
Header: ppltasks.h
Namespace: concurrency