pecs 0.1.2

Asynchronous operations for Bevy Engine
Documentation
pecs-0.1.2 has been yanked.

About

pecs is a plugin for Bevy that allows you to execute code asynchronously by chaining multple promises with respect of Bevy's ecs enviroment.

pecs is acronim for Promise Entity Component System.

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Features

  • promise chaining with then(), ok_then() and or_else()
  • state passing (state for promises is like self for items)
  • complete type inference (the next promise knows tye types of previous result)
  • out-of-the-box timer and http promises via asyn mod and stateful state.asyn()
  • custom promise registretion (add any asyn function you want!)
  • system params fetching (promise asyn! funcs accepts the same params the bevy systems does)
  • nested promises (with chaining, obviously)
  • combining promises with any/all for tuple/vec of promises via stateles Promise::any()/Promise::all() or stateful state.any()/state.all()
  • state mapping via with(value)/map(func) (change state type/value over chain calls)
  • result mapping via with_ok(value)/map_ok(func) (change Ok type/value over chain calls)
  • error mapping via with_err(value)/map_err(func) (change Err type over chain calls)

Example

use bevy::{prelude::*, app::AppExit};
use pecs::prelude::*;

fn main() {
    App::new()
        .add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
        .add_plugin(PromisePlugin)
        .add_startup_system(setup)
        .run();
}

fn setup(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands.add(
        Promise::start(asyn!(state, time: Res<Time> => {
            info!("Wait a second..");
            let started_at = time.elapsed_seconds();
            state.with(started_at).asyn().timeout(1.0)
        }))
        .then(asyn!(state, _ => {
            info!("Looks like I need to know how large is the Bevy main web page!");
            state.asyn().http().get("https://bevyengine.org").send()
        }))
        .then(asyn!(state, result => {
            match result {
                Ok(response) => info!("It is {} bytes!", response.bytes.len()),
                Err(err) => info!("Ahhh... something goes wrong: {err}")
            }
            state.done()
        }))
        .then(asyn!(state, _, time: Res<Time>, mut exit: EventWriter<AppExit> => {
            let duration = time.elapsed_seconds() - state.value;
            info!("It tooks {duration:0.2}s to do this job.");
            info!("Exiting now");
            exit.send(AppExit);
            state.done()
        }))
    );
}

There is otput of the above example, pay some attention to time stamps:

15:52:20.459635Z  INFO bevy_render::renderer: AdapterInfo { ... }
15:52:20.643082Z  INFO simple: Wait a second..
15:52:21.659898Z  INFO simple: Looks like I need to know how large is the Bevy main web page!
15:52:21.775228Z  INFO simple: It is 17759 bytes!
15:52:21.775319Z  INFO simple: It tooks 1.13s to do this job.
15:52:21.775342Z  INFO simple: Exiting now

Work in Progress

This repo is more like an experimental-proof-of-concept then a production-ready library. API could and will change. App will crash (there are some untested unsafe blocks), some promises will silently drop (there are stil no unit tests), documentation is incomplete and so on. But. But. Examples works like a charm. And this fact gives us a lot of hope.

License

The pecs is dual-licensed under either:

This means you can select the license you prefer! This dual-licensing approach is the de-facto standard in the Rust ecosystem and there are very good reasons to include both.