RunAsync

Executes the given code asynchronously and returns to you a BoxFuture object that you can use to interact with the asynchronously executed code.

A BoxFuture is a subclass of CompletableFuture.

Method Signature

RunAsync(callback=[function], executor=[any])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
callback	function	true	The code to execute asynchronously, this can be a closure or lambda.
executor	any	false	The executor to use for the asynchronous execution. This can be an instance of an Executor class, or the name of a registered executor in the AsyncService.

Examples

Run a function asynchronously and get the result

Run Example

future = runAsync( () => {
	return "Hello World!";
} );
writeOutput( future.get() );

Result: Hello World!

Run a function after the asynchronous function and use a five milliseconds timeout when calling get()

Run Example

future = runAsync( () => {
	return 5;
} ).then( ( Any input ) => {
	return input + 2;
} );
result = future.get( 3 ); // 3 is timeout(in ms)
writeOutput( result );

Result: 5

Run a function asynchronously with then() and error()

future = runAsync( () => {
	return 5;
} ).then( ( Any input ) => {
	return input + 2;
} ).error( () => {
	return "Error occurred.";
} );
writeOutput( future.get() );

Result: 7

Additional Examples

Run Example

future = runAsync( () => {
	return 10;
} ).then( ( Any input ) => {
	return input + 20;
} );
dump( future );
result = future.get( 10 ); // 10 is timeout(in ms)
writeOutput( result );
 // output is 30

Related

• ThreadJoin
• IsThreadInterrupted
• ExecutorGet
• ExecutorNew
• IsInThread
• FutureNew
• ExecutorStatus
• ExecutorList
• ThreadTerminate
• ThreadNew
• ExecutorHas
• ThreadInterrupt
• ExecutorShutdown
• isThreadAlive