CancellationToken parameter on RouteTask methods (e.g. SolveRouteAsync)?

DavidSchuster

Hello,

We have an .NET Framework application that uses the ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET version 200.0.  The app includes functionality for routing/navigation.

We would like for the user to be able to cancel the route calculation (for example, if it's taking too long, etc).  In the tasked-based async pattern in .NET (which we are using in our app), the recommendation is to support a CancellationToken parameter on asynchronous methods so that long running tasks can be cancelled if necessary.

Would it be possible to add the CancellationToken parameter to the RouteTask methods in a future release of the ArcGIS Maps SDK? 

Do you have any recommendations on how best to handle cancellation in the meantime?  I was thinking of either letting the route solve continue to completion and then throwing away the result, or perhaps running the route solve in a separate thread and stopping that thread upon cancellation (which I'm concerned might lead to resource leaks).

Thank you!

David

SomeGISGuy

For now you can just throw away the result. Most of the work is done server-side, and once the request is fired off, you can't really stop the server from doing the processing. You'd only save the download of the response, which is a minimal overhead in the grand total.