Question

I’ve developed a twitter application in .Net MVC that auto tweets msgs on specified timings.

The core function of application basically contains a recursive function the post tweets and keep calling itself until a database field is set to false which it’ll check in the next run.

The problem is that when I run the application or function through url, the browser goes in the “waiting for response… ” mode while the function is running correctly in the background in a recursive loop for a specified time until browser returns a page not found error which is I think is the default time set in browsers that they stop connecting after a website doesn’t return response for a specified time and after this when browser stop connecting the function also stop executing.

What I want is to the let this function call itself recursively in the background but also return the control to the interface until I click the off button and change the status field in the database to false, something like multithreading?

So on the basic not, how I can let a function running in background and also return the control to the front interface.
Kindly help.

public ActionResult twitter_post(string msg)
    {

        bool status = //retrieve from database;

        while(status==true){
            //post Tweets;
            twitter_post(msg);
        }
        return View();

    }

Answer 1

You can do it by using jquery timer plugin, call the server side function by json until you get your required result.

        $(document).everyTime('60s', function (i) {
               // Send your JSON call Here
         }, 1000);

this function will keep on calling your function after every 60 second. And when you get required out put then stop it by using

         $(document).stopTime();