// Package async includes helpers for scheduling runnable, periodic functions and contains useful helpers for converting multi-processor computation. package async import ( "context" "reflect" "runtime" "time" log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" ) // RunEvery runs the provided command periodically. // It runs in a goroutine, and can be cancelled by finishing the supplied context. func RunEvery(ctx context.Context, period time.Duration, f func()) { funcName := runtime.FuncForPC(reflect.ValueOf(f).Pointer()).Name() ticker := time.NewTicker(period) go func() { for { select { case <-ticker.C: log.WithField("function", funcName).Trace("running") f() case <-ctx.Done(): log.WithField("function", funcName).Debug("context is closed, exiting") ticker.Stop() return } } }() }