Question

I’m trying to get the constructor of an object to initialize a field to something, pause for 30 seconds, and then set it to something else afterwards.

Here is my code:

namespace Practice
{
    public enum TransactionStatus { Pending, Complete }

    public class Transaction
    {
        private TransactionStatus status;

        public Transaction()
        {
            this.status = TransactionStatus.Pending;
            //(I'm trying to set this to TransactionStatus.Complete after 30 seconds. What do I do afterwards?)
        }

        // Here is the method to do it... Am I right to think that.status this must be reset this.status in the constructor?
        public TransactionStatus SetStatus()
        {
            // sleep for 30 seconds and then proceed.
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);
            return TransactionStatus.Complete;
        }
    }

Answer 1

Here’s an alternative cheating method since you said you’re using toString();

private DateTime called;

public TranlationStatus()
{
    this.called = DateTime.Now; 
}

public ToString()
{
    if (this.called - DateTime.Now < new TimeSpan(0,0,20))
    {
        return TransationStatus.Pending.ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        return TransactionStatus.Complete.ToString();
    }
}