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Limiting Run Time
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[`Engine::on_progress`]: https://docs.rs/rhai/{{version}}/rhai/struct.Engine.html#method.on_progress
Track Progress and Force-Termination
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```admonish info.side "Operations count vs. progress"
_Operations count_ does not indicate the _proportion_ of work already done – thus it is not real _progress_ tracking.
The real progress can be _estimated_ based on the expected number of operations in a typical run.
```
It is impossible to know when, or even whether, a script run will end
(a.k.a. the [Halting Problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem)).
When dealing with third-party untrusted scripts that may be malicious, in order to track evaluation
progress and force-terminate a script prematurely (for any reason), provide a closure to the
[`Engine`] via [`Engine::on_progress`].
The closure passed to [`Engine::on_progress`] will be called once for every operation.
Progress tracking is disabled with the [`unchecked`] feature.
Examples
--------
### Periodic Logging
```rust
let mut engine = Engine::new();
engine.on_progress(|count| { // parameter is number of operations already performed
if count % 1000 == 0 {
println!("{count}"); // print out a progress log every 1,000 operations
}
None // return 'None' to continue running the script
// return 'Some(token)' to immediately terminate the script
});
```
### Limit running time
```rust
let mut engine = Engine::new();
let start = get_time(); // get the current system time
engine.on_progress(move |_| {
let now = get_time();
if now.duration_since(start).as_secs() > 60 {
// Return a dummy token just to force-terminate the script
// after running for more than 60 seconds!
Some(Dynamic::UNIT)
} else {
// Continue
None
}
});
```
Function Signature of Callback
------------------------------
The signature of the closure to pass to [`Engine::on_progress`] is as follows.
> ```rust
> Fn(operations: u64) -> Option<Dynamic>
> ```
### Return value
| Value | Effect |
| :-----------: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Some(token)` | terminate immediately, with `token` (a [`Dynamic`] value) as _termination token_ |
| `None` | continue script evaluation |
### Termination Token
```admonish info.side "Token"
The termination token is commonly used to provide information on the _reason_ behind the termination decision.
```
The [`Dynamic`] value returned is a _termination token_.
A script that is manually terminated returns with the error `EvalAltResult::ErrorTerminated(token, position)`
wrapping this value.
If the termination token is not needed, simply return `Some(Dynamic::UNIT)` to terminate the script
run with [`()`] as the token.