Aspose.words multi-threading failure

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

Hi,


I am attempting to run multiple threads for creating documents in the hopes of getting a large number completed quicker.
It falls over when inserting a cell on the merge callback: docBuilder.InsertCell();
On trying I get the following error:

Cannot start a cell in this state.

This is from:{Aspose.Words.Tables.Cell ()}

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I cannot find any reference to this error.
So I had a basic function to perform the merge and just wrapped that in a loop to create a number of threads:

var tasks = new List<System.Threading.Tasks.Task>();
var take = 600;
var taken = 0;
var list = new ConcurrentBag<byte[]>();
while (taken < mergeData.Rows.Count)
{
var groupMergeData = mergeData.AsEnumerable().Skip(taken).Take(take).ToArray().CopyToDataTable();
System.Threading.Tasks.Task t = System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(() =>
{
list.Add(Merge(docTemplate, groupMergeData, format));
});
taken += groupMergeData.Rows.Count;
tasks.Add(t);
}

System.Threading.Tasks.Task.WaitAll(tasks.ToArray());

Should this be possible?

2

Sorted, the callback was being shared by all threads.

3
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