Re: New Modules? Promise Module, Async Module

...no one? ;)
Am 29.02.2016 16:24 schrieb "Christian Grün" <christian.gruen@gmail.com>:

> Dear all,
>
> James Wright has recently presented his XQuery Promise Module in
> Prague (Proceedings, 139ff [1]). His code is available at GitHub [2],
> and we were wondering if people in the community were interested in
> seeing the ideas behind this module standardized?
>
> The result could be two specifications:
>
> 1. The Promise Module
>
> * This module is inspired by the Promise Pattern as it is available in
> e.g. jQuery and AngularJS.
>
> * It includes functions like defer(), then(), fail() and others (see
> the links for more details)
>
> * It seems to be possible to implement 90% or even 100% of the module
> in pure XQuery.
>
>
> 2. The Async Module
>
> * In its initial version, the module contains a single async:fork-join
> function, which can be used to process a sequence of XQuery functions
> in parallel [3].
>
> * The module could be enhanced with an extension of the FLWOR
> expressions and an 'async' keyword in for clauses [4].
>
> * It could further be extended with two functions async:fork and
> async:join. The first function would trigger the evaluation of a query
> (supplied as string) as a separate process; the second function could
> be called to fetch the result of the first function.
>
> Thoughts are welcome; thanks in advance,
> Christian
>
> [1] http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2016/files/xmlprague-2016-proceedings.pdf
> [2] http://github.com/james-jw/xq-promise/
> [3] https://github.com/james-jw/xq-promise/issues/16
> [4] https://github.com/james-jw/xq-promise/issues/15
>