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Add support for waitUntil accepting an async function?

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Hi, I wanted to use waitUntil and pass an async function as the callback. It looks like this isn’t currently supported. Is this something you would be interested in supporting?

If so I can try to open a PR which implements Promise support in waitUntil.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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makepaniccommented, Feb 28, 2019

I primarily needed the repeated truthy checks of waitUntil.

await waitUntil(async () => 
  await someAsyncTruthynessCheck());

where someAsyncTruthynessCheck is an async function that return true after a while/couple executions.

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rwjbluecommented, Aug 6, 2019

FWIW, I’m not opposed to adding support for waitUntil to handle async functions. If someone wants to pick that up, we can try to work out the details in a PR…

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