# Cancel a Graph Explicitly

To cancel a graph execution without an exception, you can create the graph using an explicit task_group_context, and then call `cancel_group_execution()` on that object. This is done in the example below:

    task_group_context t;
    graph g(t);

    function_node< int, int > f1( g, 1, []( int i ) {  return i; } );

    function_node< int, int > f2( g, 1,
        []( const int i ) -> int {
            cout << "Begin " << i << "\n";
            spin_for(0.2);
            cout << "End " << i << "\n";
            return i;
    } );

    function_node< int, int > f3( g, 1, []( int i ) {  return i; } );

    make_edge( f1, f2 );
    make_edge( f2, f3 );
    f1.try_put(1);
    f1.try_put(2);
    spin_for(0.1);
    t.cancel_group_execution();
    g.wait_for_all();

When a graph execution is canceled, any node that has already started to execute will execute to completion, but any node that has not started to execute will not start. So in the example above, f2 will print both the Begin and End message for input 1, but will not receive the input 2.

You can also get the task_group_context that a node belongs to from within the node body and use it to cancel the execution of the graph it belongs to:

    graph g;

    function_node< int, int > f1( g, 1, []( int i ) {  return i; } );

    function_node< int, int > f2( g, 1,
        []( const int i ) -> int {
         cout << "Begin " << i << "\n";
         spin_for(0.2);
            cout << "End " << i << "\n";
            task::self().group()->cancel_group_execution();
            return i;
    } );

    function_node< int, int > f3( g, 1, []( int i ) {  return i; } );

    make_edge( f1, f2 );
    make_edge( f2, f3 );
    f1.try_put(1);
    f1.try_put(2);
    g.wait_for_all();

You can get the `task_group_context` from a node’s body even if the graph was not explicitly passed one at construction time.