tokio-js-set-interval

The crate tokio-js-set-interval allows you to use setInterval(callback, ms) and setTimeout(callback, ms) as in Javascript inside a tokio runtime (https://tokio.rs/). For this, it offers the macros set_interval!(callback, ms) and set_timeout!(callback, ms).

How to use

Cargo.toml ```toml [dependencies]

don't forget that you also need "tokio" for the tokio runtime!

tokio-js-set-interval = "" ```

code.rs ```rust use std::time::Duration; use tokiojssetinterval::{setinterval, set_timeout};

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { settimeout!(println!("hello from timeout"), 25); setinterval!(println!("hello from interval"), 10);

// give enough time before tokios runtime exits
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(40)).await;

} ```

Restrictions

They behave similar to their Javascript counterparts, with a few exceptions:

• They only get executed if the tokio runtime lives long enough.
• on order to compile, the callback must return the union type, i.e. ()
• => all actions must be done via side effects
• again, there is NO GUARANTEE that the tasks will get executed \ (--> but useful/convenient for low priority background tasks and for the learning effect of course)

Trivia

⚠ I'm not an expert in tokio (or async/await/futures in Rust in general) and I don't know if this follows best practises. But it helped me to understand how tokio works. I hope it may be helpful to some of you too. ⚠

The functionality itself is really simple. The biggest part are the convenient macros. I over-engineered them a little to learn more about macros.

Compatibility

Version 1.0.0 is developed with: * tokio @ 1.6.0 (but should also work with 1.0.0) * rustc @ 1.52.1 (but should also work with 1.45.2)

Changelog

• Releases 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (2021-05-17)
  • README updates
  • text fixes
• Release 1.0.0 (2021-05-17)
  • initial release