Creating Threads

[Remo]

I'm trying to create a new thread but without much success so far. There are a few examples where System.Threading is used to let the application sleep but I couldn't find anything about creating threads.

Here are parts of the code, first the worker class:

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class Worker
{       
    public function ProcessRequest()

which is supposed to be used by this code:

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$worker = new Worker($obj);
$thread = new \System\Threading\Thread($worker->ProcessRequest);
$thread->Start();   


Using $worker->ProcessRequest as a parameter in the Thread class doesn't do anything good.

I get this error on the console before the process crashes:

Unhandled Exception: PHP.Core.PhpNetInternalException: Guarded call ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.

I also tried to use a call by reference but that didn't work either.
I'm working with 3.0.0.3237 by the way.

Any ideas on how to get this running?

[Jakub Misek]

Hi,

Phalanger defines its own function for creating new threads, so you can create them in PHP-like way.

Try to use

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clr_create_thread(callback, arguments);

Otherwise in your sample, you are mixing C# syntax with PHP syntax. In PHP you can't create callbacks by passing method without arguments. You have to pass function name as a string or an array(class name or instance, method name). Something like this

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new \System\Threading\Thread(array($worker,"ProcessRequest"));

But I don't believe Phalanger will properly convert PHP array to C# System.Action ...

[Remo]

Thanks Jakub!
I think it does cast that array to a proper object in .NET. My code still has a problem but I'm pretty sure the thread is created. I'll work on the next problem and see where it goes