Re: [Vala] Proposal for asynchronous DBus calls.

["Sam Liddicott" <sam liddicott com>]

* Christian Hergert wrote, On 17/10/08 08:06:
> This isn't totally applicable, but I thought I'd mention it before too
> much more async voodo.
>
> I've been working on an asynchronous toolkit library for GObject so
> that once we get "yield return/yield break" support I can implement my
> ideas I posted earlier.
>
> The library is called GTask and can be found on github[1].  For a
> quick, totally out of context example:
>
> var task = new Task (_ => {
>     debug ("im in worker thread");
> });
>
> task.add_callback (_ => {
>     debug ("im in main thread, by default");
> });
>
> task.add_errback (_ => {
>     debug ("i can resolve an asynchronous error");
> });
>
> You can build complex callback/errback chains just like in Python
> Twisted.  By default, the task scheduler will dispatch callbacks and
> errbacks from the main thread to ease locking hell for GUI
>   
This looks a similar pattern to that used in samba's composite connect;
I think it is useful.

How will shared variables be expressed?

Sam