Architecture: Threading

Tasks

Information related to tasks can be found here.

Global threads

There will probably be a couple of threads that would be accessed by different classes, e.g. thread through which all the libspotify API calls should be made.

List of global threads:

• spotify_thread : all the libspotify API calls should be done through this thread

Things to reconsider

Queue a task to a not running thread?

Possible solutions for adding tasks to a not running thread:

• Add a task so that it is executed whenever the thread is started
• Change the function's signature to return bool(false) and do not add task to the queue
• Assert when thread is not running (current approach)
• Throw exception if thread is not running