Module futures_util::task

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Tools for working with tasks.

This module contains:

  • Spawn, a trait for spawning new tasks.
  • Context, a context of an asynchronous task, including a handle for waking up the task.
  • Waker, a handle for waking up a task.

The remaining types and traits in the module are used for implementing executors or dealing with synchronization issues around task wakeup.

Re-exports

Structs

  • A synchronization primitive for task wakeup.
  • A custom trait object for polling futures, roughly akin to Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + Send + 'a>.
  • A custom trait object for polling futures, roughly akin to Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + 'a>.
  • An error that occurred during spawning.

Traits

  • The LocalSpawn is similar to Spawn, but allows spawning futures that don’t implement Send.
  • Extension trait for LocalSpawn.
  • The Spawn trait allows for pushing futures onto an executor that will run them to completion.
  • Extension trait for Spawn.
  • A custom implementation of a future trait object for FutureObj, providing a vtable with drop support.

Functions

  • Create a new Waker which does nothing when wake() is called on it.
  • Get a static reference to a Waker which does nothing when wake() is called on it.