I want to simulate an async call to a service where I instantiate some object but don’t know when it is really created. It can be easily above 20s. I want to run a Task.async and then keep trying Task.yield while the later returns nil. I tried the code below, with a recursion, to achieve this giv…

The problem is that yield_recursion is not a recursive function. After the second call to Task.yield, it returns. This would work: defmodule X do def yield_recursion(time) do fn -> Process.sleep(time) :success end |> Task.async() |> _yield_recursion() end defp _y…

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ndrean March 12, 2022, 12:05am 3

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