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Version: v2.1.0

FromFuture

FromFuture

FromFuture is a typeclass to convert scala.concurrent.Future to an effect, F[_]. So if there are some APIs returning Future, it can be converted to F[_].

There are three FromFuture instances available.

  • FromFuture for cats.effect.IO
  • FromFuture for scala.concurrent.Future
  • FromFuture for cats.Id
trait FromFuture[F[_]] {
def toEffect[A](future: => Future[A]): F[A]
}

FromFuture.toEffect

import cats._
import cats.syntax.all._
import cats.effect._

import effectie.core._
import effectie.syntax.all._

import extras.concurrent.ExecutorServiceOps

import java.util.concurrent.{ExecutorService, Executors}
import scala.concurrent.{ExecutionContext, Future}
import scala.concurrent.duration._

object MyApp {

def foo(n: Int)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext): Future[Int] =
Future(n + 100)

def bar[F[_] : Fx](n: Int): F[Int] =
pureOf(n * 2)

def baz[F[_] : Monad : Fx : FromFuture](n: Int)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext): F[Int] =
for {
a <- FromFuture[F].toEffect(foo(n))
b <- bar[F](a)
} yield b

}

object MyAppRun extends IOApp.Simple {
val executorService: ExecutorService =
Executors.newWorkStealingPool(Runtime.getRuntime.availableProcessors() >> 1)
implicit val ec: ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.fromExecutorService(executorService)

def run: IO[Unit] =
try {
import effectie.instances.ce3.fx.ioFx
import effectie.instances.ce3.fromFuture._
for {
n <- MyApp.baz[IO](1)
_ <- putStrLn(n.show)
} yield ()

} finally {
ExecutorServiceOps.shutdownAndAwaitTermination(executorService, 1.second)
}
}