pub fn future_service<F, S, R, E>(future: F) -> FutureService<F, S>
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Returns a new FutureService
for the given future.
A FutureService
allows you to treat a future that resolves to a service as a service. This
can be useful for services that are created asynchronously.
§Example
use tower::{service_fn, Service, ServiceExt};
use tower::util::future_service;
use std::convert::Infallible;
// A future which outputs a type implementing `Service`.
let future_of_a_service = async {
let svc = service_fn(|_req: ()| async { Ok::<_, Infallible>("ok") });
Ok::<_, Infallible>(svc)
};
// Wrap the future with a `FutureService`, allowing it to be used
// as a service without awaiting the future's completion:
let mut svc = future_service(Box::pin(future_of_a_service));
// Now, when we wait for the service to become ready, it will
// drive the future to completion internally.
let svc = svc.ready().await.unwrap();
let res = svc.call(()).await.unwrap();
§Regarding the Unpin
bound
The Unpin
bound on F
is necessary because the future will be polled in
Service::poll_ready
which doesn’t have a pinned receiver (it takes &mut self
and not self: Pin<&mut Self>
). So we cannot put the future into a Pin
without requiring Unpin
.
This will most likely come up if you’re calling future_service
with an async block. In that
case you can use Box::pin(async { ... })
as shown in the example.