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base_scheduler/
clock.rs

1// Released under the MIT License.
2// Copyright, 2026, by Samuel Williams.
3
4use crate::{Cancellation, OperationResult, TimeoutError};
5use std::{
6    future::{Future, poll_fn},
7    io,
8    pin::pin,
9    task::Poll,
10    time::{Duration, Instant},
11};
12
13/// Monotonic time and cooperative waits in one scheduler's clock domain.
14///
15/// Obtain current time through this trait rather than `Instant::now()` or `Instant::elapsed()` so simulated and paused clocks remain substitutable. Deadlines from independently advancing clock domains are not interchangeable.
16pub trait Clock: Send + Sync {
17    /// Observe this scheduler's monotonic, nondecreasing clock.
18    fn now(&self) -> Instant;
19
20    /// Wait until an absolute deadline, or until cancellation is observed.
21    ///
22    /// Futures are lazy. Pre-cancelled waits return cancellation without registering a timer, including for elapsed deadlines. Otherwise an elapsed deadline can complete immediately; no scheduler yield is promised. Once waiting, expiry wins if expiry and cancellation are observed together. Dropping the future releases its timer registration.
23    fn sleep_until(
24        &self,
25        deadline: Instant,
26        cancellation: &Cancellation,
27    ) -> impl Future<Output = OperationResult<()>> + Send;
28
29    /// Wait for a duration measured from the first poll, not construction. An unrepresentable deadline returns `io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput`.
30    fn sleep(
31        &self,
32        duration: Duration,
33        cancellation: &Cancellation,
34    ) -> impl Future<Output = OperationResult<()>> + Send {
35        async move {
36            cancellation.check()?;
37            let deadline = self.now().checked_add(duration).ok_or_else(|| {
38                io::Error::new(
39                    io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
40                    "sleep deadline is out of range",
41                )
42            })?;
43            self.sleep_until(deadline, cancellation).await
44        }
45    }
46
47    /// Await an operation for at most a relative duration, preserving its output inside `Ok`.
48    ///
49    /// The operation is polled first on every poll and wins if both it and the timer are ready, including with a zero duration. The timer starts when the operation first returns `Pending`; an immediately ready operation reads no clock and registers no timer. Constructing an unpolled timeout polls neither future.
50    ///
51    /// Expiry returns [`TimeoutError::Elapsed`]; timer failures, including an unrepresentable deadline, return [`TimeoutError::Clock`]. The losing future is dropped before returning. Expiry or timer failure drops the operation without requesting cooperative cancellation or awaiting backend retirement. Accepted I/O can continue after abandonment; callers remain responsible for protocol state and cleanup. This wrapper cannot preempt a long-running poll.
52    ///
53    /// ```
54    /// use base_scheduler::{Clock, TimeoutError};
55    /// use std::{future::Future, time::Duration};
56    ///
57    /// async fn receive<C: Clock>(
58    ///     clock: &C,
59    ///     operation: impl Future<Output = Result<String, &'static str>> + Send,
60    /// ) {
61    ///     match clock.timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), operation).await {
62    ///         Ok(Ok(item)) => println!("Received: {item}"),
63    ///         Ok(Err(error)) => eprintln!("Receive failed: {error}"),
64    ///         Err(TimeoutError::Elapsed) => eprintln!("Receive timed out"),
65    ///         Err(TimeoutError::Clock(error)) => eprintln!("Timer failed: {error}"),
66    ///     }
67    /// }
68    /// ```
69    fn timeout<FutureType>(
70        &self,
71        duration: Duration,
72        operation: FutureType,
73    ) -> impl Future<Output = Result<FutureType::Output, TimeoutError>> + Send
74    where
75        FutureType: Future + Send,
76    {
77        async move {
78            let mut operation = pin!(operation);
79            let never = Cancellation::never();
80            let mut timer = pin!(async { self.sleep(duration, &never).await });
81            poll_fn(move |context| {
82                if let Poll::Ready(output) = operation.as_mut().poll(context) {
83                    return Poll::Ready(Ok(output));
84                }
85                timer.as_mut().poll(context).map(|result| {
86                    Err(match result {
87                        Ok(()) => TimeoutError::Elapsed,
88                        Err(error) => TimeoutError::Clock(error),
89                    })
90                })
91            })
92            .await
93        }
94    }
95}