go get -u github.com/jonsen/timedmap
This package allows to set values to a map which will expire and disappear after a specified time.
Here you can read the docs of this package, generated by pkg.go.dev.
package main
import (
"log"
"time"
"github.com/jonsen/timedmap"
)
func main() {
// Create a timed map with a cleanup timer interval of 1 second
tm := timedmap.New(1 * time.Second)
// Set value of key "hey" to 213, which will expire after 3 seconds
tm.Set("hey", 213, 3*time.Second)
// Print the value of "hey"
printKeyVal(tm, "hey")
// Block the main thread for 5 seconds
// After this time, the key-value pair "hey": 213 has expired
time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
// Now, this function should show that there is no key "hey"
// in the map, because it has been expired
printKeyVal(tm, "hey")
}
func printKeyVal(tm *timedmap.TimedMap, key interface{}) {
d, ok := tm.GetValue(key).(int)
if !ok {
log.Println("data expired")
return
}
log.Printf("%v = %d\n", key, d)
}
Further examples, you can find in the example directory.
If you want to see this package in a practcal use case scenario, please take a look at the rate limiter implementation of the REST API of myrunes.com, where I have used timedmap
for storing client-based limiter instances:
https://github.com/myrunes/backend/blob/master/internal/ratelimit/ratelimit.go
Copyright (c) 2020 zekro Development (Ringo Hoffmann).
Covered by MIT licence.