Asynchronous Operations: Utility Functions

Async can be used effectively with the basic, built in infrastructure in HHVM, along with some HSL functions. This basic infrastructure includes:

However, there are cases when we want to convert some collection of values to awaitables or we want to filter some awaitables out of a collection of awaitables. These types of scenarios come up when we are creating multiple awaitables to await in parallel. Some of the functions that help with this are:

Name Returns Description
HH\Lib\Vec\filter_async<Tv> Awaitable<vec<Tv>> Returns a new vec containing only the values for which the given async predicate returns true.
HH\Lib\Vec\from_async<Tv> Awaitable<vec<Tv>> Returns a new vec with each value awaited in parallel.
HH\Lib\Vec\map_async<Tv1, Tv2> Awaitable<vec<Tv2>> Returns a new vec where each value is the result of calling the given async function on the original value.
HH\Lib\Dict\filter_async<Tk as arraykey, Tv> Awaitable<dict<Tk,Tv>> Returns a new dict containing only the values for which the given async predicate returns true.
HH\Lib\Dict\filter_with_key_async<Tk as arraykey, Tv> Awaitable<dict<Tk,Tv>> Like filter_async, but lets you utilize the keys of your dict too.
HH\Lib\Dict\from_async<Tk, Tv1> Awaitable<dict<Tk,Tv2>> Returns a new dict where each value is the result of calling the given async function on the original value.
HH\Lib\Dict\from_keys_async<Tk as arraykey, Tv> Awaitable<dict<Tk,Tv>> Returns a new dict where each value is the result of calling the given async function on the corresponding key.
HH\Lib\Dict\map_async<Tk as arraykey, Tv1, Tv2> Awaitable<dict<Tk,Tv2>> Returns a new dict where each value is the result of calling the given async function on the original value.
HH\Lib\Keyset\filter_async<Tv as arraykey> Awaitable<keyset<Tv>> Returns a new keyset containing only the values for which the given async predicate returns true.
HH\Lib\Keyset\from_async<Tv as arraykey> Awaitable<keyset<Tv>> Returns a new keyset containing the awaited result of the given Awaitables.
HH\Lib\Keyset\map_async<Tv, Tk as arraykey> Awaitable<keyset<Tk>> Returns a new keyset where the value is the result of calling the given async function on the original values in the given traversable.

Other Convenience Functions

There are three convenience-functions tailored for use with async. They are:

Name Returns Description
HH\Asio\usleep(int) Awaitable<void> Wait a given length of time before an async function does more work.
HH\Asio\later() Awaitable<void> Reschedule the work of an async function until some undetermined point in the future.
HH\Asio\wrap(Awaitable<Tv>) Awaitable<ResultOrExceptionWrapper<Tv>> Wrap an Awaitable into an Awaitable of ResultOrExceptionWrapper.
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