Modern Concurrency: Getting Started

Oct 18 2022 · Swift 5.5, iOS 15, Xcode 13.4

Part 2: Asynchronous Sequences

10. Concurrency With async let

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Serial vs Concurrent

When you store files on a cloud server, you usually want to know how much storage you’ve used and whether you have duplicate files. This “cloud server” has an endpoint to supply this information.

func status() async throws -> String {
  guard let url = URL(string: "http://localhost:8080/files/status") else {
    throw "Could not create the URL."
  }
  return ""
}
let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(from: url) // fetch the data
guard (response as? HTTPURLResponse)?.statusCode == 200 else {  // check the statusCode
  throw "The server responded with an error."
}
return String(decoding: data, as: UTF8.self)
do {
  files = try await model.availableFiles()
  🟩status = try await model.status()

Grouping async calls

OK, now back to that do closure.

async let files = try model.availableFiles()
async let status = try model.status()
let (filesResult, statusResult) = try await (files, status)
self.files = filesResult
self.status = statusResult