Android Question Return value from a sub with a call to Wait For

[nirmelamoud]

Hi,

I have a sub that use Wait For in order to call rest interface, I want to make it a sync call and return value, can I do that ?
or do I have to use call chain at the end and call other function with the 'return' value

 

[Erel]

Yes: [B4X] Resumable subs that return values (ResumableSub)

 

[nirmelamoud]

Thanks, but not what I was asking,

Im asking if there is a way to do this
funca (1)
...
ret = funcb()
... do something with ret
...

funcb()
....
http call in a sync way (wait for....)
....
return job.getText

like in Java for example, it sound like B4A automatically run funcb in a separate thread so you cant get value back in funca

 

[Erel]

like in Java for example

There is no such feature in Java. Resumable subs are similar (but not exactly the same) to C# async / await feature.

it sound like B4A automatically run funcb in a separate thread so you cant get value back in funca

No additional threads are created for resumable subs.

The way to implement the logic that you are describing is with subs that return ResuableSub + Wait For.

Sub FuncA
 Wait For (FuncB) Complete (Result As Something)
 Log(Result)
End Sub

Sub FuncB As ResumableSub
 Dim j As HttpJob
 ...
 Dim res As String = j.GetString
 j.Release
 Return res
End Sub

 

[nirmelamoud]

of course I can do that in Java, but regardless, what you are saying is that I can't do that in basic and I need to use callback-like functionality or with double wait for - ok
thanks

 

[Erel]

of course I can do that in Java,

No, you can't. There is no equivalent feature in Java.

Even trivial code such as this will be much more complicated in Java:

For i = 1 To 10
 btn.SetVisibleAnimated(100 * i, i Mod 2 = 0)
 Sleep(100 * i)
Next

And of course that you can't hold the main thread or touch the UI from a background thread.

 

[nirmelamoud]

of course, not meant to hold the UI thread,

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[Erel]

I was talking about the resumable subs feature. This is not specific to http requests. It is a language feature which allows you to deal with event-driven asynchronous code in almost the same way that you will do with synchronous code.

 

[nirmelamoud]

I agree resumable is a nice feature , when I was talking about the java feature is to implement what I was asking about which is sync call to HTTP get

 

[OliverA]

or with double wait for

Even a double Wait For does not block. That's the beauty of Wait For, you don't have to worry about grinding the event queue to a halt. Looking at the doc for the Java 11 implementation, both HttpClient.send and CompletableFuture.get are fully blocking, therefore forcing you to use threads in cases where the return may take a while (since at that point, the event queue would be blocked). Now, if you are looking at a full blocking HTTP request that stalls out the event queue, then you'll have to come up with something else.