ASyNC

An async framework for Lua/Torch, based on LibUV (using Tim Caswell's luv library).

This lib is heavily inspired on the Node.js architecture. It's fun, elegant, and should be extremely efficient (a lot of testing is required).

The examples in tests/ should provide enough documentation on the API.

License

MIT License

Examples

Starting the event loop. At the end of any program, the event loop must be started. Nothing will be interpreted after this call, as it takes control of the runtime.

async.go()

It's useful to have a REPL (interpreter) running asynchronously, for debugging and live control of your programs:

async.repl()  -- fires up an asyncronous repl

async.repl.listen({host='0.0.0.0', port=8080})   -- fires up an async repl through a TCP server
async.repl.connect({host='0.0.0.0', port=8080})  -- connects to a remote repl through a TCP client

Common JS like timer controls:

async.setInterval(millis, function()
   print('printed every N millis')
end)
async.setTimeout(millis, function()
   print('printed once in N millis')
end)

CPU Info. Useful to know how many processors are available. This is a synchronous call.

print(async.cpuInfo())

A TCP server:

async.tcp.listen({host='0.0.0.0', port=8080}, function(client)
   -- Receive:
   client.ondata(function(chunk)
      -- Data:
      print('received: ' .. chunk)

      -- Reply:
      client.write('thanks!')
   end)

   -- Done:
   client.onend(function()
      print('client gone...')
   end)
end)

A TCP client:

async.tcp.connect({host='127.0.0.1', port=8080}, function(client)
   -- Write something
   client.write('something .. ' .. i)

   -- Callbacks
   client.ondata(function(chunk)
      print('received: ' .. chunk)
      client.close()
   end)

   -- Done:
   client.onend(function()
      print('connection closed...')
   end)
end)

File I/O. The low level interface is not complete yet, but the high-level one is final:

async.fs.readFile('LICENSE', function(content)
   print(content)
   async.fs.writeFile('LICENSE.copy', content, function(status, err)
      print('==> wrote file: ' .. (status or err))
   end)
end)