Fire-and-forget operation
A fire-and-forget operation is work initiated without the caller waiting for or consuming its completion, result, or response.
F# in Action: A Revised Edition of Get Programming with F#
A fire-and-forget operation is an asynchronous operation started without awaiting or otherwise consuming its completion or result.
- How it is used
- Uses background asynchronous work when callers need neither an immediate response nor a returned result.
- How deep it goes
- Defines no-result Tasks and task-state inspection, but does not detail fire-and-forget lifecycle management.
- Examples
- Uses background order processing, file writing, delayed Tasks, and asynchronous file reading as examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate task progress and failure by inspecting Status, completion flags, and Exception.
Spring in Action, Sixth Edition
The fire-and-forget model is a communication pattern in which a client sends a request without receiving a response from the server.
- How it is used
- Uses RSocket when a client must send data without receiving a server response.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the interaction model and demonstrates a reactive server handler and client call, without detailing delivery guarantees.
- Examples
- Uses a starship red alert, an Alert payload, an alert route, and logging as concrete examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Spring RSocket by mapping a Mono<Void> handler and calling send() without retrieving a response.
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Related concepts
- asynchronous programmingused by · Asynchronous programming is an execution approach in which operations can progress independently without requiring the initiating flow to wait for their completion or an immediate response.
- Monouses · Mono is a Project Reactor publisher type representing an asynchronous computation that emits zero or one item.
- timercontrasts with · A timer is a hardware or software mechanism that tracks time and triggers an event or action after a specified duration or at scheduled intervals.
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