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# swift-concurrency-deadline
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# Deadline
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A deadline algorithm for Swift Concurrency.
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## Rationale
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As I've previously stated on the [Swift forums](https://forums.swift.org/t/my-experience-with-concurrency/73197): in my opinion deadlines or timeouts are a missing piece in Swift's Concurrency system.
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Since this algorithm is not easy to get right and the implementation in [swift-async-algorithms](https://github.com/apple/swift-async-algorithms/pull/215) has been laying around without getting merged for quite some time now, I decided to open-source my implementation.
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## Details
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It will start a `TaskGroup` with two child tasks: your operation and a `Task.sleep(until:tolerance:clock:)`. There are three possible outcomes:
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1. If your operation finishes first, it will simply return the result and cancel the sleeping.
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2. If the sleeping finishes first, it will throw a `DeadlineExceededError` and cancel your operation.
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3. If the parent task was cancelled, it will automatically cancel your operation and the sleeping. The cancellation handling will be inferred from your operation. `CancellationError`s from `Task.sleep(until:tolerance:clock:)` will be ignored.
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> [!CAUTION]
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> The operation closure must support cooperative cancellation.
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> Otherwise, `withDeadline(until:tolerance:clock:operation:)` will suspend execution until the operation completes, making the deadline ineffective.
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The library comes with two free functions, one with a generic clock. And another one which uses the `ContinuousClock` as default.
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```swift
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public func withDeadline<C, T>(
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until instant: C.Instant,
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tolerance: C.Instant.Duration? = nil,
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clock: C,
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operation: @escaping @Sendable () async throws -> T
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) async throws -> T where C: Clock, T: Sendable { ... }
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public func withDeadline<T>(
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until instant: ContinuousClock.Instant,
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tolerance: ContinuousClock.Instant.Duration? = nil,
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operation: @escaping @Sendable () async throws -> T
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) async throws -> T where T: Sendable { ... }
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```
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## Example
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This is just a demonstrative usage of this function. `CBCentralManager.connect(_:)` is a good example, in my opinion, since it does not support timeouts natively.
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Again, if you try to make something like `CBCentralManager.connect(_:)` asynchronous and use it with `withDeadline(until:tolerance:clock:operation:)` be sure to use `withTaskCancellationHandler(operation:onCancel:)` at some point to opt into cooperative cancellation.
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```swift
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try await withDeadline(until: .now + seconds(5), clock: .continous) {
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try await cbCentralManager.connect(peripheral)
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}
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```

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