Community Forum: async and await

async and await

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Topic: async and await

Posted By: GeorgeB
Subject: async and await
Date Posted: 28-Feb-2012 at 10:56am

For a number of reasons (too many to explain here) I would like to use async and await from the Async CTP in my Silverlight app.

Any suggestions on how my (Cocktail) Repository might define the Manager.SaveChangesAsync() ?

Tried this but EntitySaveOperation isn't 'awaitable'

public async Task<EntitySaveOperation> SaveAsync(Action<IEnumerable> onSuccess, Action<Exception> onFail)
{
     return await Manager.SaveChangesAsync();
}

Thanks

George

Replies:

Posted By: GeorgeB
Date Posted: 28-Feb-2012 at 11:17am

Okay just in case someone asks:-

I have a 3 step process which has to save a record, then if that is successful, save a record to another table, and if that is successful, save a another record to a third table.

This is running inside a foreach loop where I might make 20 iterations.

Thanks

George

Posted By: mgood
Date Posted: 28-Feb-2012 at 1:32pm

Neither Cocktail nor DevForce supports Task and async/await yet. It's still CTP. What's wrong with Coroutines? They do everything async/await does without the syntax sugar.

Posted By: GeorgeB
Date Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 10:38am

Just to be difficult? No seriously - we've used async / wait as much as we can in our app.

I'm using coroutines but I just want keep everything standard.

Now that we have a go-live beta of .Net 4.5, will we see anything soon?

George

Posted By: mgood
Date Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 10:43am

No committment to supporting it before the official release of .NET 4.5, but we will support it.

Posted By: mgood
Date Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 10:47am

Oh btw, in the meantime, there's nothing stopping you from writing a wrapper that wraps a DevForce asynchronous operation as a Task, so you could do the following. Take a look at AsOperationResult for how Cocktail wraps a DevForce operation as an OperationResult<T>, which implements IResult in order to be consumable from a Caliburn Coroutine. Wrapping it as a Task is not much different.

public async Task<EntitySaveOperation> SaveAsync(Action<IEnumerable> onSuccess, Action<Exception> onFail)

{
return await Manager.SaveChangesAsync().AsTask();
}

Posted By: GeorgeB
Date Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 10:48am

No problem.

Keep up the good work with Cocktail.

Posted By: mseeli
Date Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 11:29pm

I have been using the async CTP in my project for month now. It works just fine.

Here my wrapper around DevForce query.ExecuteAsync:

    public static class VisExtensions
    {
        static readonly ILog Log = LogManager.GetLog(typeof(VisExtensions));
 
        public static Task<List<T>> VisExecuteAsync<T>(this IEntityQuery<T> query) where T : Entity
        {
            var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<List<T>>();
            
            query.ExecuteAsync(op =>
            {
                if (op.Error != null)
                {
                    Exception ex2 = new Exception("VisExtensions.VisExecuteAsync.Query.ExecuteAsync: Exception", op.Error);
                    Log.Error(ex2);
                    tcs.TrySetException(op.Error);
                }
                else
                {
                    List<T> resultList = new List<T>();
                    foreach (var r in op.Results)
                    {
                        resultList.Add(r);
                    }
                    tcs.TrySetResult(resultList);
                }
            });
           return tcs.Task;
        }

Posted By: mgood
Date Posted: 07-Apr-2012 at 11:00am

Just resurrecting this thread. The latest Cocktail source code has now support for the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern in WPF and SL5.

http://cocktail.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets - http://cocktail.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets

This will be part of the next release.

If you are using the Async CTP, add the following class to your project in order to make all Cocktail asynchronous operations awaitable:

using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

namespace Cocktail

{

public static class AwaitFns

{

public static TaskAwaiter<T> GetAwaiter<T>(this OperationResult<T> operation)

{

return operation.AsTask().GetAwaiter();

}

public static TaskAwaiter GetAwaiter(this OperationResult operation)

{

return operation.AsTask().GetAwaiter();

}

public static TaskAwaiter<T> GetAwaiter<T>(this DialogOperationResult<T> operation)

{

return operation.AsTask().GetAwaiter();

}