#macro #async #struct-fields #future #perform #resolution #concurrency

macro conquer-struct

provides macros to perform concurrent future resolution, while populating struct fields

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Jun 6, 2023

#1491 in Asynchronous

MIT/Apache

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Conquer Struct

Macros that allow, constructing struct by providing fields as futures. These macros, automatically perform, future resolution concurrently, and construct the struct.

Why

Consider a scenerio, where you are trying to construct a struct, and have to fetch it's fields asynchronously. The code to perform this action would looks something like this:


async fn get_contact_info(contact_id: usize) -> Contact {
    Contact {
        name: get_contact_name(contact_id).await,
        number: get_contact_number(contact_id).await,
        is_verified: true
    }
}

Seems simple, now as a performance improvement, we need to call those functions concurrently. Oh, that's a refactor. It would require us to add more code, and keep track of the functions that are being executed. It's definitely possible, but consider huge structs it would definitely be difficult to keep track and you might assign outputs of different functions to difficult variables.

How

Introducing conquer_struct, as the name suggest it will conquer concurreny for you and you can avoid writing any boilerplate code. Let's take the same example as above, look at how to make it concurrent


async fn get_contact_info(contact_id: usize) -> Contact {
    conquer_future!(Contact {
        name: async { get_contact_name(contact_id).await },
        number: async { get_contact_number(contact_id).await },
        is_verified: true
    }).await
}

Done! Wasn't is simple, with minimal change our code is transformed into concurrent code.

Usage

conquer_struct provides use with 2 macros.

conquer_future this macro resolves the futures provided inside the struct. the macro has a rough signature:


conquer_future!(StructName {
    value1: T,
    value2: async { .. } // ~ impl Future<Output = V>, considering the field
                        // accepts type V
}) -> impl Future<Output = StructName>

try_conquer_future this macro resolves the futures provided inside the struct, as well as consider the result of the future that are present inside.


try_conquer_future!(StructName {
    value1: T,
    value2: async { .. } // ~ impl Future<Output = Result<V, E>>, consider the field
                        // accepts type V
}) -> impl Future<Output = Result<StructName, E>>

Contributions

Contributions as always welcome, before contributing please checkout the issues section, for any previous development that might be done. For, any improvement, features, bugfixes please create a issue first to track it.

Code Guidelines

Any code that is being added should pass, +nightly fmt formatting checks, clippy checks, and tests.

Dependencies

~225–660KB
~16K SLoC