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async-gate

A Tokio-powered asynchronous gate (analogous to a flag and highly inspired by Python’s asyncio.Event, but can be waited for to become ‘false’ too)

5 unstable releases

0.3.1 Feb 28, 2024
0.2.1 Feb 19, 2024
0.2.0 Feb 19, 2024
0.1.4 Sep 3, 2023
0.1.3 Sep 1, 2023

#727 in Asynchronous

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🚧 Async Gate

This Rust library is an asynchronous "gate" that can be waited to be raised or lowered, as controlled by a corresponding "lever".

💻 Installation

This crate is published to crates.io as async-gate, so you can do

cargo add async-gate

to add it to your project's dependencies.

🛠 Usage

You probably don't want to use this if you aren't me; the code is clunky and only moderately documented and tested. You might benefit more from using a plain tokio::sync::watch channel with your own layer of logic on top.

😵 Help! I have a question

Create an issue and I'll try to help.

😡 Fix! There is something that needs improvement

Create an issue or pull request and I'll try to fix.

📄 License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

🙏 Attribution

This implementation is heavily borrowed from @EFanZh's contributions in this Rust forum post.

The idea is highly inspired by Python's asyncio.Event, but a gate can be waited for to become 'clear' too (not just 'set').

This library is implemented with Tokio's watch channel.

I also developed awaitable-bool right after making async-gate. That unifies changing the value of the bool and waiting for value changes into a single type (AwaitableBool). It is simpler than this crate.

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Dependencies

~2.3–4MB
~65K SLoC