Features
  • Task Scheduler:
    • Specialized task scheduler that helps ensure the user has a chance to add all required exception handlers to a future before the future is completed
  • Futures:
    • Objects representing a delayed computation
    • Custom futures that implement the EsFuture interface may be integrated into the framework (@see @EsFuture-Interface category)
    • Turn any synchronous activity into an asynchronous activity (i.e. EsFuture on: [self doSyncActivity])
    • (Chainable) Create async call chains (i.e ((future then: [:result1 | self doSomething(result1)]) then: [:result2 | ...))
    • @see <EsFuture> class comments for more details
  • Promises:
    • Objects that provide a future and is used to programmatically complete the future.
    • Can be used to convert callback style to async style
    • @see <EsPromise> class comments for more details
  • Zones:
    • Asynchronous dynamic extent of a call
    • Handle errors for asynchronous code
    • Provides zone-local values
    • Various ways to customize how an asynchronous task is scheduled and executed
  • Streams
    • Stream of asynchronous events
    • Single-subscription streams with events in order and all are received.
    • Broadcast streams can have multiple listeners at any time
  • Async Exception Handling
    • Async equivalents of #on:do: and ensure: are provided
    • Can signal arbitrary objects, in addition to other exceptions
    • All unhandled exceptions make their way to the <EsAsyncUncaughtErrorHandler> (logged to tty console by default)
Last modified date: 04/22/2022