FutureK

A simple monadic future implementation based on coroutines for Kotlin

Usage

It's a simple type that help us to manage the asynchrony and the concurrency. With this library you can write async code in sync way.

For launch an async process it's as simple as this:

Future { doHeavyTask() }

If it's necessary to obtain a result and process it this is the way:

val myResultFuture = Future { getResultFromMyServer() }
myResultFuture.map { processMyResult(it) }

If there is concurrency and we need to process more than one result together we should use flatMap and map:

val myResultFuture = Future { getResultFromMyServer() }
val myOtherResultFuture = Future { getOtherResultFromMyServer() }
  
val myDataProcessedFuture = myResultFuture.flatMap {
    myResult -> myOtherResult.map {
        myOtherResult -> processTogether(myResult, myOtherResult)
    }
}

And if you need apply effects in the UI the method for this is onComplete:

myDataProcessedFuture.onComplete { renderResult(it) }

If use map and flatMap together is weird or ugly for you, you can implement methods like this for avoid boilerplate. Maybe in next versions this library could include a solution for this.

fun <T, K, R> forComprehension(f1: Future<T>, f2: Future<K>, function: (T, K) -> R): Future<R> {
        return f1.flatMap { it1 -> f2.map { it2 -> function(it1, it2) } }
}
 
// And this code
val myDataProcessedFuture = myResultFuture.flatMap {
    myResult -> myOtherResult.map {
        myOtherResult -> processTogether(myResult, myOtherResult)
    }
}
 
// Would be like this
val result = forComprehension(myResultFuture, myOtherResult) {
    myResult, myOtherResult -> processTogether(myResult, myOtherResult)
}

Here a complete example:

fun initLoadData() {
 
    val myResultFuture = Future { getResultFromMyServer() }
    val myOtherResultFuture = Future { getOtherResultFromMyServer() }
 
    val result = forComprehension(myResultFuture, myOtherResult) {
        myResult, myOtherResult -> processTogether(myResult, myOtherResult)
    }
 
    result.onComplete {
        renderResult(it)
    }
}

Distribution

Add as a dependency to your build.gradle

repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    maven { url "https://kotlin.bintray.com/kotlinx/" }
}
 
dependencies {
    compile 'com.github.JMPergar:FutureK:v0.12'
}

License

Copyright 2017 José Manuel Pereira García

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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