Async loading and reloading

[hadronized]

This will be a bit tricky but with a Future interface, it should be okay.

[edwin0cheng]

+1 for this feature, I would like to use warmy in our wasm game engine too.
But it need to be async loading since web resources are async in nature.

[hadronized]

Yep. I have an idea in mind on how to do it. Basically, I would like to keep both interface (sync and async). The async one is not very different:

• Instead of returning a Result<Res<T>, _>, the Store::get method would return a Result<impl Future<Item = ARes<T>>, _>.
• ARes would be the same as a Res but with Arc.

The missing parts are that I would like to implement an IO-bound thread instead of letting all asynchronous threads deal with the IO stuff. That’s a bit tricky, because all those threads would then be some kind of memory buffer consumers instead of paths or keys consumers. A bit tricky. :)

[edwin0cheng]

That's good to know, however, I would like to know if it is possible to allow to use custom executor ? Since wasm do not support threading now, which the only option are polling :(

[hadronized]

What do you mean custom executor? I plan to add a way to plugin event loops and custom “event sources”, if it’s what you’re referring to. 🙃