Feature: Allow QueuePoller to be interrupted from another thread

[camsteffen]

Describe the feature

There should be a way to cleanly stop/interrupt QueuePoller from another thread. It should immediately abort pending poll requests, but if the poll callback is executing, it should wait for that to complete before returning.

Use Case

I would to write code like Signal.trap("INT") { poller.stop }, so that I may use Ctrl+C to interrupt a daemon script that is polling SQS with QueuePoller.

Proposed Solution

The QueuePoller could have a method stop that can be invoked from any thread. If a call to poll is awaiting an SQS poll request, the request will be immediately aborted and poll will return normally. If poll is executing the callback when stop is invoked, then it will wait until the callback returns and then poll will return without making further poll requests.

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

SDK version used

3.1.0

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

macOS

[alextwoods]

Thanks for submitting this - this seems like a useful feature that we would consider. I think the slightly difficult part is "immediately abort pending poll". By default the settings will use SQS Long polling and we'd need a way to manage stopping that. Do you have any proposed solutions for that? We would be willing to review a demo PR (and merge a full PR for the feature) if you have ideas for implementing this.