build/extracted-examples/guides/hack/15-asynchronous-operations/31-examples/data-dependencies.hack

// WARNING: Contains some auto-generated boilerplate code, see:
// HHVM\UserDocumentation\MarkdownExt\ExtractedCodeBlocks\FilterBase::addBoilerplate

namespace HHVM\UserDocumentation\Guides\Hack\AsynchronousOperations\Examples\DataDependencies;

use namespace HH\Lib\Vec;

class PostData {
  // using constructor argument promotion
  public function __construct(public string $text) {}
}

async function fetch_all_post_ids_for_author(
  int $author_id,
): Awaitable<vec<int>> {

  // Query database, etc., but for now, just return made up stuff
  return vec[4, 53, 99];
}

async function fetch_post_data(int $post_id): Awaitable<PostData> {
  // Query database, etc. but for now, return something random
  return new PostData(\str_shuffle("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"));
}

async function fetch_comment_count(int $post_id): Awaitable<int> {
  // Query database, etc., but for now, return something random
  return \rand(0, 50);
}

async function fetch_page_data(
  int $author_id,
): Awaitable<vec<(PostData, int)>> {

  $all_post_ids = await fetch_all_post_ids_for_author($author_id);
  // An async closure that will turn a post ID into a tuple of
  // post data and comment count
  $post_fetcher = async function(int $post_id): Awaitable<(PostData, int)> {
    concurrent {
      $post_data = await fetch_post_data($post_id);
      $comment_count = await fetch_comment_count($post_id);
    }
    return tuple($post_data, $comment_count);
    // alternatively:
    $_return = tuple(
      await fetch_post_data($post_id),
      await fetch_comment_count($post_id),
    );
  };

  // Transform the array of post IDs into a vec of results,
  // using the Vec\map_async function
  return await Vec\map_async($all_post_ids, $post_fetcher);
}

async function generate_page(int $author_id): Awaitable<string> {
  $tuples = await fetch_page_data($author_id);
  $page = "";
  foreach ($tuples as $tuple) {
    list($post_data, $comment_count) = $tuple;
    // Normally render the data into HTML, but for now, just create a
    // normal string
    $page .= $post_data->text." ".$comment_count.\PHP_EOL;
  }
  return $page;
}

<<__EntryPoint>>
function main(): void {
  \init_docs_autoloader();

  print \HH\Asio\join(generate_page(13324)); // just made up a user id
}