I am trying to construct a simple class, which calls a reboot function depending on the machine type to be rebooted. The called methods refer to a library which contains public static methods. I want to asynchronously call these static methods using Task in order to call the reboot methods in parallel. Here is the code so far:
EDIT Following the community's request, this is now a version of the same question, with the code below compiling. Please not that you need the Renci.SshNet lib, and also need to set references to it in your project.
// libs
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Renci.SshNet;
namespace ConsoleApp
{
class Program
{
// Simple Host class
public class CHost
{
public string IP;
public string HostType;
public CHost(string inType, string inIP)
{// constructor
this.IP = inIP;
this.HostType = inType;
}
}
// Call test function
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create a set of hosts
var HostList = new List<CHost>();
HostList.Add( new CHost("Machine1", "10.52.0.93"));
HostList.Add( new CHost("Machine1", "10.52.0.30"));
HostList.Add( new CHost("Machine2", "10.52.0.34"));
// Call async host reboot call
RebootMachines(HostList);
}
// Reboot method
public static async void RebootMachines(List<CHost> iHosts)
{
// Locals
var tasks = new List<Task>();
// Build list of Reboot calls - as a List of Tasks
foreach(var host in iHosts)
{
if (host.HostType == "Machine1")
{// machine type 1
var task = CallRestartMachine1(host.IP);
tasks.Add(task); // Add task to task list
}
else if (host.HostType == "Machine2")
{// machine type 2
var task = CallRestartMachine2(host.IP);
tasks.Add(task); // Add task to task list
}
}
// Run all tasks in task list in parallel
await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
}
// ASYNC METHODS until here
private static async Task CallRestartMachine1(string host)
{// helper method: reboot machines of type 1
// The compiler complains here (RebootByWritingAFile is a static method)
// Error: "This methods lacks await operators and will run synchronously..."
RebootByWritingAFile(@"D:\RebootMe.bm","reboot");
}
private static async Task CallRestartMachine2(string host)
{// helper method: reboot machines of type 2
// The compiler warns here (RebootByWritingAFile is a static method)
// Error: "This methods lacks await operators and will run synchronously..."
RebootByNetwork(host,"user","pwd");
}
// STATIC METHODS here, going forward
private static void RebootByWritingAFile(string inPath, string inText)
{// This method does a lot of checks using more static methods, but then only writes a file
try
{
File.WriteAllText(inPath, inText); // static m
}
catch
{
// do nothing for now
}
}
private static void RebootByNetwork(string host, string user, string pass)
{
// Locals
string rawASIC = "";
SshClient SSHclient;
SshCommand SSHcmd;
// Send reboot command to linux machine
try
{
SSHclient = new SshClient(host, 22, user, pass);
SSHclient.Connect();
SSHcmd = SSHclient.RunCommand("exec /sbin/reboot");
rawASIC = SSHcmd.Result.ToString();
SSHclient.Disconnect();
SSHclient.Dispose();
}
catch
{
// do nothing for now
}
}
}
}
My only problem with this setup so far is that the static methods are called immediately (sequentially) and not assigned to a task. For example the line
...
else if (host.HostType == "Machine2")
{// machine type 2
var task = CallRestartMachine2(host.IP);
tasks.Add(task); // Add task to task list
}
...
takes 20 seconds to execute if the host is unreachable. If 10 hosts are unreachable the sequential duration is 20*10 = 200 seconds.
I am aware of some seemingly similar questions such as
- c# asynchronously call method
- Asynchronous call with a static method in C# .NET 2.0
- How to call a method asynchronously
- Simple Async Await Example for Asynchronous Programming
However, the cited lambda expressions still leave me with the same compiler error ["This methods lacks await operators..."]. Also, I do not want to spawn explicit threads (new Thread(() => ...)) due to high overhead if restarting a large number of machine in a cluster.
I may need to reboot a large number of machines in a cluster. Hence my question: How can I change my construct in order to be able to call the above static methods in parallel?
EDIT Thanks to the comments of @JohanP and @MickyD, I would like to elaborate that I have actually tried writing the async version of both static methods. However that sends me down a rabbit hole, where every time a static method is called within the async method I get the compiler warning that the call will be synchronous. Here is an example of how I tried to wrap the call to method as an async task, hoping to call the dependent methods in an async manner.
private static async Task CallRestartMachine1(string host)
{// helper method: reboot machines of type 1
// in this version, compiler underlines '=>' and states that
// method is still called synchronously
var test = await Task.Run(async () =>
{
RebootByWritingAFile(host);
});
}
Is there a way to wrap the static method call such that all static child methods don't all need to rewritten as async?
Thank you all in advance.
asyncand await them.