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Tzach K.'s avatar
Tzach K.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

async usage in examples

I have a question regarding the API v2 examples as a whole. All of the examples supplies use async calls. even for login. However you use task.wait() after the Task creation which essentially makes t...
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Tzach K.'s avatar
Tzach K.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Hi Gregory,

I'm saying that the code example doesn't make sense. On one hand you are using async calls, but then you tell the main thread to wait for the async thread to finish, meaning you turned it into sync calls. Then why use async to begin with?

The other thing I didn't get is why you display an async call for user login. How can this be an async call? you can't do anything before the user is logged in. Same goes for other examples you provide. All of them are async but with blocking task.wait and no explanation on why you used async.to begin with. Is it because you want to show a loading gif while waiting? then why block it?

Thank you for your answer.

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