Bevy Async Task provides Bevy system parameters to run asynchronous tasks in the background on web and native with timeouts and output capture.

Bevy version support

Usage

There are several examples for reference.

You can also run examples on web:

# Make sure the Rust toolchain supports the wasm32 target
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

cargo run_wasm --example simple

Polling in systems

Poll one task at a time with AsyncTaskRunner<T>:

async fn long_task() -> u32 {
    sleep(Duration::from_millis(1000)).await;
    5
}

fn my_system(mut task_runner: AsyncTaskRunner<u32>) {
    if task_runner.is_idle() {
        task_executor.start(long_task());
        info!("Started!");
    }

    match task_runner.poll() {
        Poll::Ready(v) => {
            info!("Received {v:?}");
        }
        Poll::Pending => {
            // Waiting...
        }
    }
}

Poll many similar tasks simultaneously with AsyncTaskPool<T>:

fn my_system(mut task_pool: AsyncTaskPool<u64>) {
    if task_pool.is_idle() {
        info!("Queueing 5 tasks...");
        for i in 1..=5 {
            task_pool.spawn(async move { // Closures work too!
                sleep(Duration::from_millis(i * 1000)).await;
                i
            });
        }
    }

    for status in task_pool.iter_poll() {
        if let Poll::Ready(v) = status {
            info!("Received {v:?}");
        }
    }
}

We also have a cross_system example.

Community

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Contributions are welcome by pull request. The Rust code of conduct applies.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option

Contribution

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