Support intervals with Wing

[boyney123]

Use Case

I'm trying to understand if I can use intervals with Wing, other programming languages have them

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/setInterval
• https://pkg.go.dev/time#NewTicker (Go tickers)

For example: A
as a developer writing containerised code, maybe I want to setup an interval to hit an endpoint every X seconds

Proposed Solution

Maybe util.setInterval(func, duration) would work? Or something similar?

Only inflight support I imagine?

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[Chriscbr]

A way to create timers or ticker would be great to have for inflight code. We can start by porting JavaScript's built-in APIs straight over for initial support:

inflight () => {
  let id: num = util.setInterval(func, 5s); // run "func" every 5s
  // ...
  util.clearInterval(id); // stop the timer
};

Adding this as a good first issue.

Only inflight support I imagine?

Yeah, I think so.

[pushkarm029]

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[pushkarm029]

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