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Network services WG


Network services WG

  1. Async IO
  2. Library support for network services

Library support

Help us decide what to prioritize the rest of this afternoon!


async/await


Concat two pages

  1. HTTP GET to URL 1
  2. HTTP GET to URL 2
  3. Combine the bodies of the two responses

(Ignore that this is embarrassingly parallel.)


Concat two pages: blocking IO


Client API

impl Client {
    fn get(&mut self, url: &Url)
        -> io::Result<String> { ... }
}

Concat two pages: blocking IO

fn concat_pages(client: &mut Client, url1: &Url, url2: &Url)
    -> io::Result<String>
{
    let page1 = client.get(url1)?;
    let page2 = client.get(url2)?;
    Ok(page1 + &page2)
}

Concat two pages: futures


Client API

impl Client {
    fn get(&mut self, url: &Url)
        -> impl Future<Item = String, Error = io::Error>
    { ... }
}

Concat two pages: futures

fn concat_pages(client: Arc<Mutex<Client>>,
                url1: &Url, url2: &Url)
    -> io::Result<String>
{
    let client2 = client.clone();
    let url2 = url2.to_owned();

    client.lock().get(url1)
          .and_then(move |page1| {
              client2.lock().get(&url2).join(Ok(page1))
          })
          .map(|(page2, page1)| {
              page2 + &page1
          })
}

Concat two pages: async/await


Client API

impl Client {
    fn get(&mut self, url: &Url)
        -> impl Future<Item = String, Error = io::Error>
    { ... }
}

(The same API!)


Concat two pages: async/await

async fn concat_pages(client: &mut Client,
                      url1: &Url, url2: &Url)
    -> io::Result<String>
{
    let page1 = await(client.get(url1))?;
    let page2 = await(client.get(url2))?;
    Ok(page1 + &page2)
}

async fn

  • async fn foo() -> T is a function that returns impl Future<Item = T>
  • Inside the body, you return T; your function body compiles to a stackless coroutine

await

  • Transforms a Future<Item = T> into T
  • Can only await inside of an async fn
  • Yields control of the coroutine until the future resolves

Library support

  • Move Future, IntoFuture, and task into libcore
  • Leave everything else in the ecosystem for now
trait Future {
    type Item;
    fn poll(self: Pin<Self>,
            ctx: &mut task::Context) -> Async<Self::Item>;
}

From here to there

  • RFCs: April - May
  • Implementation & experimentation: May - September
  • Discuss tomorrow morning
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