hiya, i'm looking to build a system in which i can dispatch a set of async tasks (atm using tokio) and then communicate in a request/response style with them. does anyone know of a crate / type within tokio that allows this sort of behaviour? or, is there an easy way to implement this with existing channel types?
#Request-Response style channel type
lyric karma
winter yacht
Could you use something like https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.8.1/crossbeam/channel/index.html ?
lapis laurel
there's a general trick for request-response: put the sender of a tokio::sync::oneshot channel inside each of your request messages, which can then convey the response
lyric karma
yeah i was considering that but wasnt sure if there was a better solution
lyric karma
Could you use something like https://docs.rs/crossbeam/0.8.1/crossbeam/channel/i...
i only need 1-1 as i only need to communicate between 1 task and 1 manager, though this style of channel would work well
i think im gonna go with the crossbeam channel and see how it works out
lapis laurel
you don't want to use crossbeam channels from async tasks because they have blocking receive, not .await receive