From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:28:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKDRQS76AbGex1SfjttbDj9LdZae6zd7m1vo7X=9xfODz8KxLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3effvo98g.fsf@gnus.org>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm currently using generators to alleviate UI blocking a bit, but I
>> haven't found a good answer to making async network processes and then
>> joining their results later. (short of writing a giant block of
>> callback spagetti anyway...)
>
> You want to do a bunch of async HTTP calls, and when they're all
> complete (including possibly some tryLaters), then you finish the entire
> thing? I don't really see the problem... can't you just create a queue
> (a la url-queue), or if you want to do all the calls in parallel, just
> create a structure all the threads fill in and the last one that
> finishes does the "complete" action?
>
The latter, parellel requests, and then join the results when they all
come back. I've come up with some bastardization of MapReduce now, but
this would be a lot nicer if Emacs had something like
https://github.com/chuntaro/emacs-promise built in, so I can combine
it with a generator to emulate async/await semantics.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-22 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-20 20:06 [RFC] automatically retrying network connections Robert Pluim
2018-07-21 15:21 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:28 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong [this message]
2018-07-22 16:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-22 23:24 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 11:18 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:29 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-23 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-22 10:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 10:41 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 13:32 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-22 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:27 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-23 8:23 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-23 20:57 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-22 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:26 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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