Wait for Rust
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**Wait for Rust** simplifies the integration of asynchronous code into
synchronous applications without the need to rewrite your entire application
as `async` or add a bulky runtime just to use `block_on()`.
## Installation
Either use `cargo add wait` or add it to your `Cargo.toml` manually. You can
also add the `tokio` feature if you are calling an `async` function that
requires it (like a `reqwest` method, for example).
## Usage
Getting started with **Wait for Rust** is straightforward:
**Step 1**: Add the prelude to your application:
```rust
use wait::prelude::*;
```
**Step 2**: Call the `.wait()` method instead of `.await` from within any
function, method, or closure, even if it's not an `async` context:
```rust ignore
let body = reqwest::get("https://www.rust-lang.org")
.wait()?
.text()
.wait()?;
println!("body = {body:?}");
```
**Step 3**: ????
**Step 4**: Profit
You can see the complete example in the [`examples`] folder.
## Building with `no_std`
This crate is `no_std` so that modules from `std` and `alloc` are only pulled
in when the `std` feature flag is enabled (which it is by default). Even
though this crate can work with `no_std`, the `tokio` feature flag brings in
a `tokio` runtime, which does require `std`.
Without the `std` feature flag, this library uses a hot loop to wait for the
`Future` to complete. This is not ideal, so it should only be used when
absolutely necessary.
## Troubleshooting
If your application panics with the message `there is no reactor running,
must be called from the context of a Tokio 1.x runtime`, you can fix this by
enabling the `tokio` feature flag in your crate. Unfortunately, this means
you wind up using a `tokio` runtime under the hood, but this crate disables
all but the minimum required features of `tokio` that are necessary for it to
work. It also manages the runtime for you so you can use `.wait()` exactly
the same.
If you encounter any other problems, please [open an issue] on GitHub.
## Acknowledgements
This crate rests on the shoulders of giants. Rust futures are complicated,
but popular libraries like `tokio`, `async-std`, `futures-rs`, and `embassy`
are incredible resources for learning how futures work. We thank the
maintainers and contributors of these libraries and the broader Rust
community for all of their hard work and dedication. Additionally, the CI
workflow for this repository is heavily based on the one in the `futures-rs`
repository.
## License
Licensed under either of the [Apache License, Version 2.0][APACHE-2.0] or the
[MIT license][MIT] at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally
submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0
license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or
conditions.
[`examples`]: https://github.com/FlippingBinaryLLC/wait-rs/tree/main/examples
[open an issue]: https://github.com/FlippingBinaryLLC/wait-rs/issues
[APACHE-2.0]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
[MIT]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT