Dataflows provide safe channels to share data between producers and consumers. The most basic element of a dataflow is dataflow variables. You just create an object of the Dataflows class and then we can define variables on it. These variables have two important characteristics:
- You can only set the value once
- When a task tries to use the value of a dataflow's variable, its execution thread is blocked until the variable has a value
The benefits you can obtain with dataflow variables are:
- You don't have race conditions
- You don't need to use locks or other synchronization mechanisms explicitly
- If there's a deadlock provoked by dataflow's variables, you can determine its cause
Let's see an example of how dataflow variables work. ...
