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MonadAsync

type Callback[A] = (A => Unit) => Unit

trait MonadAsync[F[_]] {
  def now[A](a: A): F[A]
  def delay[A](a: => A): F[A]
  def suspend[A](fa: => F[A]): F[A]
  def async[A](listen: Callback[A]): F[A]
  def async[A](a: => A)(implicit pool: Executor): F[A]
  def fork[A](fa: => F[A])(implicit pool: Executor): F[A]
  def mapA[A, B](fa: F[A])(f: A => B)(implicit pool: Executor): F[B]
  def bindA[A, B](fa: F[A])(f: A => F[B])(implicit pool: Executor): F[B]
  def schedule[A](a: => A, delay: Duration)(implicit pool: ScheduledExecutorService): F[A]
}

and MonadAsync laws that instances need to comply.

MonadAsync for scalaz

Because Task is just an EitherT[ Future, Throwable, ? ].

Because Task's handy operations (handle, timed, retry) are lost when you have a WriterT[ Task, ? ]

• Provides MonadAsync instances for Future, Task, EitherT, WriterT, ReaderT and StateT.
• Also Nondeterminism instances.
• Provides a Retry operation using Catchable and MonadError.
• Provides a Timer that returns a value after certain time has passed, and timeouts for effects / computations that take too long.
• For Scala 2.10 and 2.11

Example

runs 3 times a block of code that ultimately fail, retrying based on examination of the failure

def someWork[F[_]: MonadAsync: Monad: Comonad: Catchable]: Unit = {
  val errorMessage = "can be repeated"
  val f: F[Unit] = MonadAsync[F].delay { println("Some code") } >> Catchable[F].fail(new Exception(errorMessage))
  val withRetries: F[Unit] = f.retry(List(1 second, 2 seconds, 4 seconds), { _.getMessage == errorMessage })
  withRetries.copoint // assume copoint runs F
}

Please refer to existing tests for more usage examples.