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future.rs
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future.rs
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// Copyright 2018 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
#![unstable(feature = "futures_api",
reason = "futures in libcore are unstable",
issue = "50547")]
use marker::Unpin;
use ops;
use pin::Pin;
use task::{self, Poll};
/// A future represents an asychronous computation.
///
/// A future is a value that may not have finished computing yet. This kind of
/// "asynchronous value" makes it possible for a thread to continue doing useful
/// work while it waits for the value to become available.
///
/// # The `poll` method
///
/// The core method of future, `poll`, *attempts* to resolve the future into a
/// final value. This method does not block if the value is not ready. Instead,
/// the current task is scheduled to be woken up when it's possible to make
/// further progress by `poll`ing again. The wake up is performed using
/// `cx.waker()`, a handle for waking up the current task.
///
/// When using a future, you generally won't call `poll` directly, but instead
/// `await!` the value.
pub trait Future {
/// The result of the `Future`.
type Output;
/// Attempt to resolve the future to a final value, registering
/// the current task for wakeup if the value is not yet available.
///
/// # Return value
///
/// This function returns:
///
/// - [`Poll::Pending`] if the future is not ready yet
/// - [`Poll::Ready(val)`] with the result `val` of this future if it
/// finished successfully.
///
/// Once a future has finished, clients should not `poll` it again.
///
/// When a future is not ready yet, `poll` returns
/// `Poll::Pending`. The future will *also* register the
/// interest of the current task in the value being produced. For example,
/// if the future represents the availability of data on a socket, then the
/// task is recorded so that when data arrives, it is woken up (via
/// [`cx.waker()`]). Once a task has been woken up,
/// it should attempt to `poll` the future again, which may or may not
/// produce a final value.
///
/// Note that if `Pending` is returned it only means that the *current* task
/// (represented by the argument `cx`) will receive a notification. Tasks
/// from previous calls to `poll` will *not* receive notifications.
///
/// # Runtime characteristics
///
/// Futures alone are *inert*; they must be *actively* `poll`ed to make
/// progress, meaning that each time the current task is woken up, it should
/// actively re-`poll` pending futures that it still has an interest in.
///
/// The `poll` function is not called repeatedly in a tight loop for
/// futures, but only whenever the future itself is ready, as signaled via
/// the `Waker` inside `task::Context`. If you're familiar with the
/// `poll(2)` or `select(2)` syscalls on Unix it's worth noting that futures
/// typically do *not* suffer the same problems of "all wakeups must poll
/// all events"; they are more like `epoll(4)`.
///
/// An implementation of `poll` should strive to return quickly, and must
/// *never* block. Returning quickly prevents unnecessarily clogging up
/// threads or event loops. If it is known ahead of time that a call to
/// `poll` may end up taking awhile, the work should be offloaded to a
/// thread pool (or something similar) to ensure that `poll` can return
/// quickly.
///
/// # Panics
///
/// Once a future has completed (returned `Ready` from `poll`),
/// then any future calls to `poll` may panic, block forever, or otherwise
/// cause bad behavior. The `Future` trait itself provides no guarantees
/// about the behavior of `poll` after a future has completed.
///
/// [`Poll::Pending`]: ../task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Pending
/// [`Poll::Ready(val)`]: ../task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Ready
/// [`cx.waker()`]: ../task/struct.Context.html#method.waker
fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut task::Context) -> Poll<Self::Output>;
}
impl<'a, F: ?Sized + Future + Unpin> Future for &'a mut F {
type Output = F::Output;
fn poll(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut task::Context) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
F::poll(Pin::new(&mut **self), cx)
}
}
impl<P> Future for Pin<P>
where
P: ops::DerefMut,
P::Target: Future,
{
type Output = <<P as ops::Deref>::Target as Future>::Output;
fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut task::Context) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
Pin::get_mut(self).as_mut().poll(cx)
}
}