To think the Kotlin example is bad. Just wait unti...
# vertxn
napperley
08/26/2017, 2:29 AMTo think the Kotlin example is bad. Just wait until you look at this Kotlin example with callback hell amplified, aaaah! https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-examples/blob/master/jdbc-examples/src/main/kotlin/io/vertx/example/jdbc/streaming/JDBCExample.kt 😱
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elizarov
08/26/2017, 7:56 PMLooks like a perfect candidate to apply coroutines and solve this callback hell once and for all.
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jasoet
08/28/2017, 12:32 AMMost Vertx api are callback based. such as vertx web-client and obviously a perfect candidate for coroutine.
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julienviet
08/28/2017, 12:50 PMdatabase interaction workflow is I think the best for coroutines as it can have a non linear flow with finally closes that makes it non practical even with promises
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julienviet
08/28/2017, 12:59 PMactually my opinion is that coroutines makes promise and stream irrelevant for writing non blocking code, so kudos to Kotlin to provide such goodness
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julienviet
08/28/2017, 1:02 PMparsers are also a good use cases : here is an HTTP request parser written with coroutines https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-lang-kotlin/blob/74e5bf75b1ffc215c15f1c26d516637bd58ac875/vertx-lang-kotlin-coroutine/src/test/kotlin/io/vertx/kotlin/coroutines/HttpParserTest.kt#L45
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