Waiting for single event with timeout

Question

My current solution requires a class global CancellationTokenSource. It is possible to do the same without it?

CancellationTokenSource _waitCTS = null;

private async Task WaitWithTimeout(string param)
{
    _waitCTS?.Dispose();
    _waitCTS = new CancellationTokenSource();

    XClass x = new XClass(param);
    x.OnReceived += X_OnReceived;

    try
    {
        await Task.Delay(5000, _waitCTS.Token).ConfigureAwait(true);
    }
    catch (TaskCanceledException)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("Timed out");
    }

    x.OnReceived -= X_OnReceived;
    x.Cleanup();
}

private void X_OnReceived(object sender, SelectedItemEventArgs e)
{
    Debug.WriteLine(e.ReceivedItem);
    if (_waitCTS != null)
        _waitCTS.Cancel();
}

Answer 1

You can make the handler a local that captures the CancellationTokenSource variable. EG something like:

private async Task WaitWithTimeout(string param)
{
    var CancellationTokenSource _waitCTS = new CancellationTokenSource();

    XClass x = new XClass(param);
    SelectedItemEventHandler X_OnReceived = (s, e) =>
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(e.ReceivedItem);
        _waitCTS.Cancel();
    }

    x.OnReceived += X_OnReceived;


    try
    {
        await Task.Delay(5000, _waitCTS.Token).ConfigureAwait(true);
    }
    catch (TaskCanceledException)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine("Timed out");
    }

    x.OnReceived -= X_OnReceived;
    x.Cleanup();
}