Questions tagged [async-await]
This covers the asynchronous programming model supported by various programming languages, using the async and await keywords.
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C# .NET 9 API for managing a personal investment portfolio
I've written a C# API using .NET 9 with the goal of managing a personal investment portfolio – that means,
adding funds
adding or removing transactions (for ETFs, ETCs, and usual funds)
retrieving ...
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Async Rust UdpServer with Clean-Shutdown (using Tokio)
I'm new to Rust and trying to build an async Server.
The server should receive UDP packets, process them (which will include more network communication), and respond the result to the client.
I had ...
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C# wait for a state change without blocking
I have a class that manages an HttpClient to make API requests to a third party service. The service requires being logged in to make requests. When logged in, a ...
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Find food related words in German: Seeking Feedback on Concurrency and Code Organization
I'm developing a pipeline that processes unknown ingredient data from the OpenFoodFacts API. The goal is to find valid German words that are not yet in their taxonomy.
The tool performs the following ...
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An AsyncStreamWriter that allows to asynchronously write to a Stream
I'm hoping this should be mostly asynchronous, looking to make this close to 100%, if not 100%, so. This class was created to ease converting image formats, but it has an unlimited number of use cases....
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Simple priority task scheduler implementation
My project I am working on requires the following functionality for the processed messages:
each message has a priority
messages with higher priorities should have precedence over the ones with lower ...
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Proving that a Window Message is being sent by async/await
I asked a question on Stack Overflow and there's a discussion between @Serg, who posted an answer and @Jimi, whose comments suggest that the answer might be wrong.
So I implemented the following code ...
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Implement DRY principle with IAsyncDisposable
This is a tiny class that creates backup copies of a file so these can be diff'ed to spot the changes compared to last run; used when generating code and so far has proved to be very helpful.
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Idempotent JavaScript script loader
I wrote an idempotent script loader (for the browser), where the same script won't be loaded more than once.
scriptLoader.js:
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Extension methods to modify an async Task's type from Task<IEnumerable<T>> to Task<List<T>>
I've written a lot of (await SomeTask).AsList(); in my project, and it's kind of annoying to keep wrapping it.
To fix this I've written a little extension method on ...
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TCP Server using Tokio
Solving the following problem on Protohackers: https://protohackers.com/problem/1
The problem:
Each request is a single line containing a JSON object, terminated by a newline character ('\n', or ...
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Asynchronous tasks to subscribe to orders and fills
Pretty straightforward question. The methods SubscribeToOrdersAsync and SubscribeToFillsAsync are pretty similar due to ...
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Timer built in Unity using Async Await
For learning purposes, I built a timer that does something every x seconds in Unity using an async Task instead of a coroutine.
I'd like to know if there is a less awkward way of writing this:
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Scraper to grab publicly available data
I am using Python scraper code to grab publicly available data from http://103.48.16.132/echalan/, but it takes almost 6gb of memory and more cpu. I need to run ...
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Basic node login routes for authentication system
I am building a basic authentication system with a node backend and wonder whether I am using the try-catch block excessively. I have this example controller:
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Async FIFO processing of database writes - naive implementation in .Net 6
One of the companies I was recently interviewing with gave me a following task to implement in a day or two using .Net, just to see where my coding abilities are at:
Implement a Web API that gets ...
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Deleting entities asynchronously in C#
I have a method that takes a collection of objects, and in turn calls a method that handles a single object. My question is, do I need to handle the tasks coming from the ...
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Process a binary file by chunk using a read stream in nodejs
I want to process a file chunk by chunk to prevent memory exhaustion. I need to consume the file using a read stream. When trying it, this implementation seems to work fine.
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Asynchronous recursive function for generating a unique Id
The code below is my first purpose built asynchronous recursive function. It took me a while to figure out how to write the thing, and I would like a second opinion.
It's part of a project for The ...
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Reading and modify big set of data
I have a method that iterate over my table question in database and then will split a column commentaires and finnally put ...
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What is better - using SerialPort with or without await/async methods?
I'm having an implementation using SerialPort in C# using Visual Studio 2019. I'm using it in a Windows Application, using .NET Framework 4.7.2.
When I open and ...
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Concise handling of async tasks with timeouts in c#
Often I have async functions that I want to be able to time out, this timeout is independent of the greater scope of the application. However the function should also take into consideration the ...
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Cleanup Async WhenAll
I have a sequence, retrieve data from a vendor API, cleanup our stage tables, and write the retrieve data into the database. What I have:
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Handling boilerplate tasks via service pipelines
Here's a small experiment about handling boilerplate tasks via service pipelines. It's similar to the HTML pipeline but simpler and multipurpose.
I've updated the question and this is the 2nd version ...
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C# Async FileInfo Extensions (Copy, Move, Delete)
Here is my effort to implement extensions for FileInfo object:
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Retrying a RestRequest
I wrote a method that lets me retry RestSharp requests when a specific exception is thrown.
Here's the code for that method:
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Regarding "Local variables should not be declared and then immediately returned or thrown" [closed]
Given the code:
async getData() {
const response = await handleRequest(…);
return response;
}
Many of static code analyzers mark this code with an issue ...
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Asynchronous and recursive word square generator in C#
Overview
I've created an asynchronous and recursive method of generating word squares, of any size (known as the order of the square), from a known word list. If you're unfamiliar with word squares:
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Event handling with async await in Python
Recently, I had to write a code to classify and rename lots of image files based on their content. So, I wrote a Python script which displays all those images as a slideshow to the me, and I can ...
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Adding websocket functionality to send live data from a Python script. Any edge-cases or unexpected consequences to beware of?
The original purpose of this script was saving data to a local file, which is still the primary purpose.
Since I may only obtain one copy of a data stream (not this particular Coinbase one; it's just ...
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An async time-based rate-limiting semaphore for C#
This is a class that allows only limited number of requests to proceed per period of time.
This is designed for use with external APIs that require such rate limiting, e.g. 600 requests per 10 minutes....
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Fetch in JavaScript, but less messy?
I'm trying to separate the fetch logic from the component, but, due to the nature of async/await functions I have to write an async function to call other async function and I wanted to know if that's ...
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Posts data to endpoint, trying not to use .Result on async methods
I have a Send method that is working but want to refactor a portion where it is using PostAsync().Result and ReadAsStringAsync().Result. I've never written async methods before and don't feel I ...
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Asynchronously scrape fabric information
This is my first asyncio/aiohttp web scraper. I am trying to wrap my head around Python's asyncio/aiohttp libs these days and I am not sure if I fully understand it or not yet. So I'd like have some ...
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C# Asynchronous Lock class
I'm wrote Asynchronous Lock provider for reducing lock that breaks async keyword.
All tasks with async and ...
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Asynchronous Event Handler
This class acts as an asynchronous event handler that will execute all attached tasks in an async/await context. Requires Nuget Immutables. Example usage:
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Are nested calls to `asyncio.gather()` dangerous?
I wrote this ~100 line script recently, where I tried out Python's asyncio library. When it comes to asynchronous programming in Python, I just have 2 days of ...
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ForEachAsyncSemaphore asynchronously processing tasks but enable fast fail
I know this has been done many times before, but this is my existing code taken from a sample I found to async process a list of tasks. I've seen Task.Run in use before in many examples, but I'm ...
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Racing promises and consuming them in the order of their resolution time
The ideas are
When multiple async calls are made, to be able to start consuming from the first resolving one regardless in what order the promises are fired.
To construct a modern emitter of async ...
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Throttled execution of an enumeration of Tasks
Example of use:
var users = await usernames.SelectTaskResults(GetUserDetails, 4);
where GetUserDetails(string username) is a ...
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Simple retrier of async function
I wrote a simple function for retrying the passed function in case it throws.
I did it for my app that needs to call an external API through the network, which may spuriously fail.
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Using asyncio and aiohttp in classes
To better familiarize with async requests I wrote a very simple scraper that relies on aiohttp to retrieve some basic information from the product page (product ...
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Fastapi with Aiohttp not providing expected results
I am new to asynchronous programming in python. Below are two scripts(which perform the same operation) one in Fastapi + aiohttp while other is basic Flask + requests library:
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c# make synchronization function waitable and cancelable [closed]
I need to call some synchronization function and need they running in background and canbe canceled. So I write this:
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Is this correct way to setup DB Infrastructure with repository pattern and Dapper
So, I am using Repository pattern with Dapper and ADO.NET. I have my based DB infrastructure setup as follows:
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Get images for PDFs from URLs
I Have the below code that gets urls of PDF files, send them to a convert function and returns them as images, is there a way to make this code more readable?
Is there a way to avoid functions ...
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How can I speed up the processing of the received channel socket
This currently runs with 1400+ sockets and manages data correctly and in the manner the application requires. I do have an issue with the HandleData method where ...
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Catching Errors in Factory Method with express.js
My express.js application uses a lot of promises for interacting with a variety of services. Instead of including try/catch with each one, I've setup a fail safe factory method for all my express ...
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Giving an alternative Async method to a service [closed]
I have an interface, implemented by a service, that I inject here and there in my codebase.
I would like to give the opportunity to use either the normal method or its async equivalent.
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await user input with async/await syntax
for clarity: moved here from stackoverflow after being pointed to Code Review being the better place for this question
I love async/await and Promises since I got my hands on them. And I might be ...
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