Open Source Swift Library Providing A Nice Implementation of Promises

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Promises are a great way for working with asynchronous operations and earlier this year I mentioned the Objective-C promises library PromiseKit who have added an experimental Swift variant to their library.

Here’s an open source Swift based library called Craft from Tommy Leung for promises that is based on the Promises/A+ standard with a very clean syntax.

This is a basic usage example showing Craft in action – note that operations are not automatically placed in a background thread like some of the Objective-C promises libraries:


let promise = Craft.promise({

    (resolve: (value: Value) -> (), reject: (value: Value) -> ()) -> () in



    //some async action

    let queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0)

    dispatch_async(queue, {



        //do something

        usleep(250 * 1000)



        dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), {



            //resolve if all went well

            resolve(value: value)



            //or reject if there was a problem

            reject(value: value)

        })

    })

})



promise.then({

    (value: Value) -> Value in



    //resolved successfully!



    return nil

}, reject: {

    (value: Value) -> Value in



    //failed for some reason



    return nil

})

And an example of how to use the array capabilities for times you want multiple promises to resolve before doing something:


let a = [

    somePromise,

    someOtherPromise,

    anotherPromise

]



Craft.all(a).then({

    (value: Value) -> Value in



    if let v: [Value] = value as? [Value]

    {

        //v is an array of the Promise results

        println(v)

    }



    return nil

})