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Dart in Action
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Dart in Action

by Chris Buckett
January 2013
Beginner
424 pages
13h 26m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 9. Asynchronous programming with callbacks and futures

This chapter covers

  • The nonblocking async programming model
  • Callbacks for asynchronous APIs
  • Improving asynchronous readability with futures and completers
  • Unit-testing asynchronous code

In web programming, you can’t rely on events outside your application’s control happening in a specific order. In the browser, retrieving data from a server might take longer than you expect, and instead of waiting for the data, a user might click another button. A Dart server application will likely need to handle a new request for data before a previous request has finished reading data from the file system. This type of programming is known as an asynchronous model (async), and its counterpart ...

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