Async/Await/Futures

[vaind]

Looking at some other dart code I've got an impression the API should be asynchronous (returning Futures). Thoughts?

[Buggaboo]

This was mentioned before here.

I was thinking of starting on this, after we've tackled other high-priority issues.

[vaind]

The comment mentioned C async ops, which are only a part of the picture, and I'm not sure they can be used now with futures because there's currently no way to tell if the operation has finished.

The main goal I had in mind with raising this issue question was first to discuss whether it makes sense to change the standard Box APIs, like get, put, delete, etc to returning Futures.

[Buggaboo]

The comment mentioned C async ops, which are only a part of the picture, and I'm not sure they can be used now with futures because there's currently no way to tell if the operation has finished.

The main goal I had in mind with raising this issue question was first to discuss whether it makes sense to change the standard Box APIs, like get, put, delete, etc to returning Futures.

How about the observer ops? Could those help?

[softkot]

Async methods like find() is a highly required feature.