Snippets tagged asynchronous

  • Asynchronous sequences

    An asynchronous sequence is similar to the seq type, but the elements of the sequence are generated asynchronously without blocking the caller as in Async. This snippet declares asynchronous sequence and uses it to compare two files in 1k blocks.

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    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Synchronous, event-based and asynchronous HTTP proxy

    This snippet shows the implementation of three HTTP proxy servers in F#. The first is written using simple synchronous style (that isn't scalable). The second version uses event-based approach in the Node.js style, but is difficult to write. The third version uses F# async workflows and is both scalable and easy to write.

    7 people like this

    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • AsyncSeq - Introduction and Crawler

    This snippet demonstrates programming using asynchronous sequences. It contains (hidden) implementation of AsyncSeq type and combinators for working with it. More importantly, it demonstrates how to use asynchronous sequences to implement a simple sequential on-demand crawler.

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    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Caching agent

    Agent that keeps a cache of web pages that were downloaded previously. The agent handles messages to add and get data as well as message to clear the cache.

    7 people like this

    Posted: 12 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Receive-only SMTP server

    An agent is used to act as SMTP server and receive emails. Another agent receives emails from the SMTP server and also responds to requests for all emails received. A type is exposed that wraps this behaviour in a single method to get the list of emails.

    5 people like this

    Posted: 8 years ago by Nick Lydon

  • Timed CEs for both synchronous and asynchronous workflows

    Convenient CEs that allow you to measure how long it takes to execute a given content.

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    Posted: 2 years ago by Natalie Perret

  • Simple asynchronous functions

    The snippet demonstrates how to compose simple asynchronous functions and how to use try .. with to handle exceptions in asynchronous workflows.

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    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Asynchronous HTTP proxy with chunking and caching

    This snippet shows two improvements to asynchronous HTTP proxy from: http://fssnip.net/6e. First extension is to process page in chunks (instead of downloading the entire content first). The second extension is to use simple agent-based in-memory cache for previously visited pages.

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    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Download stock prices as async sequence

    The snippet uses asynchronous sequences (from F# AsyncExtensions) to download historical stock data from Yahoo. Data is downloaded in a buffered way on demand (as needed) and returned line by line. The sample then prints OHLC values for first 30 items.

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    Posted: 13 years ago by Tomas Petricek

  • Async.Sleep with immediate cancellation

    Implementation of Async.Sleep in f# 2.0 doesn't allow break it execution until the time elapsed. Here is the alternate implementation which support immediate cancellation. According to discussion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9041491/is-there-any-reason-why-async-sleep-can-not-be-canceled-immediately .

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    Posted: 12 years ago by Andrei Kolomentsev

  • Walkthrough: Creating an Asynchronous HTTP Handler

    The Microsoft tutorial Walkthrough: Creating an Asynchronous HTTP Handler did not describe how to use IHttpAsyncHandler from F#.
    It was also a bit complicated, because it did not show how to do it from Visual Studio. Here is the Visual Studio F# version. 1. Create empty ASP.NET Web Application. Call it FSharpHttpAsyncHandler. 2. Add a F# library project to the solution. Call it FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib. 3. Add the following code to Library1.fs in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib 4. Add a reference to System.Web in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib 5. Add a reference to FSharpHttpAsyncHandler.Lib in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler. 6. Add the following to Web.config in FSharpHttpAsyncHandler. 7. In the Web tab of the project properties of FSharpHttpAsyncHandler, set Start url to http://localhost://whatever.SampleAsync 8. Run debug.

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    Posted: 6 years ago by Erling Hellenäs