Enhancement Request: Add '.toFuture()' or '.toAsync()' as default method for all Function types

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by prujo...@gmail.com

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I find myself writing a function-to-future wrapper in most of my non-trivial projects.

Putting forward for consideration that it makes sense to just add a standard conversion to Future method on all Function types.

Thanks,
John

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by jat@google.com

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And what would the implementation look like? How would it convert the synchronous body of the function into an async one?

[madsager]

Removed Type-Defect label.
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[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by prujoh...@gmail.com

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@JaT I'm just a simple caveman, but this is how I approach it:

  Future f2f(Function f){
    Completer c = new Completer();
    
    doIt() {
      c.complete(f());
    }
    
    try{
      window.setTimeout(doIt, 0);
    }catch (Exception e){
      c.completeException(e);
    }
    
    return c.future;
  }
  
  String expensiveFunc(int ms){
    var time = new Date.now();
    var nextTime = time;
    while(nextTime.difference(time).inMilliseconds < ms){
      nextTime = new Date.now();
    }
    return "Expensive function finished.";
  }
  
  f2f(() => expensiveFunc(5000)).then((v) => print(v));
  
  print('I print first.');

  // instead it would be nice if f2f() was standard method of Function...
  // expensiveFunc(5000).toFuture().then((v) => print(v));
  //
  // also perhaps option to direct to a thread pool (wrapped in a Isolate [constrained that func must return isolate-legal value])
  // expensiveFunc(5000).toIsolate().then((v) => print(v));

[gbracha]

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[sethladd]

Thanks for the suggestion! Implemented with Future.of()

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Added this to the M4 milestone.
Added Fixed label.