Searching strategy in an infinte list
I am listening to a 3rd party web-service, when the services starts it generates a stream of objects which I am receiving. I have to search for a specific object within given amount of time and do some processing if the object is found or throw an error in any of the below condition:
- The web-service stops and I haven't found the object.
- My timer expires.
- Any other erroneous condition.
I am wondering about what could be the best way to search for the ob开发者_Python百科ject assuming I am searching in an infinite list and the order of items in which they appear in the list cannot be predicted ?
If the order cannot be predicted, then there's no better way than simply testing each object as it is received.
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