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Compose @amphp Futures and await them however you want with a type-safe CompositeFuture object
https://github.com/labrador-kennel/composite-future

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Compose @amphp Futures and await them however you want with a type-safe CompositeFuture object

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# Labrador Composite Future

An object that represents a type-safe collection of `Amp\Future` objects and methods to act on that collection.

## Installation

[Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is the only supported method for installing Labrador packages.

```
composer require labrador-kennel/composite-future
```

## Getting Started

The object provided by this library is intended to provide a type that can be used in type-hints to provide more
information when dealing with a collection of Futures. When the `CompositeFuture` is used a return type hint you're also
able to construct your code to read in a manner similar to handling a single Future. As always, the best way to
get started is to look at some code!

```php
Future::complete(1), 'b' => Future::complete(2), 'c' => Future::error(new \Exception('something went wrong'))];
return new CompositeFuture($futures);
}

$futures = futuresGeneratingMethod();
// Returns an array with keys equal to the index of the Future and the value to the Future resolution
// Will throw an exception when an error is encountered
$futures->await();

// Also has access to the following methods, which follow the same documentation as their corresponding
// Amp\Future functions.
$futures->awaitAll();
$futures->awaitAny();
$futures->awaitAnyN(2);
$futures->awaitFirst();

?>
```

## Motivation

This library is intentionally a very simple object-oriented wrapper around the utility functions for working with a collection
of Futures. The motivation is to provide a semantic type-hint for dealing with this type of collection. In the above example,
without the `CompositeFuture`, we would basically have 2 options:

1) Await the Futures inside the function itself; this may not be ideal because each invocation may need to handle awaiting differently.
2) Type-hint returning an array from our method; this may not be ideal because it isn't as semantic as the type-hint.

## Governance

All Labrador packages adhere to the rules laid out in the [Labrador Governance repo](https://github.com/labrador-kennel/governance)