How to convert an AsyncSequence into a Sequence
How to convert an AsyncSequence into a Sequence 관련
Updated for Xcode 15
Swift does not provide a built-in way of converting an AsyncSequence into a regular Sequence, but often you’ll want to make this conversion yourself so you don’t need to keep awaiting results to come back in the future.
The easiest thing to do is call reduce(into:) on the sequence, appending each item to an array of the sequence’s element type. To make this more reusable, I’d recommend adding an extension such as this one:
extension AsyncSequence {
func collect() async rethrows -> [Element] {
try await reduce(into: [Element]()) { $0.append($1) }
}
}
With that in place, you can now call collect() on any async sequence in order to get a simple array of its values. Because this is an async operation, you must call it using await like so:
extension AsyncSequence {
func collect() async rethrows -> [Element] {
try await reduce(into: [Element]()) { $0.append($1) }
}
}
func getNumberArray() async throws -> [Int] {
let url = URL(string: "https://hws.dev/random-numbers.txt")!
let numbers = url.lines.compactMap(Int.init)
return try await numbers.collect()
}
if let numbers = try? await getNumberArray() {
for number in numbers {
print(number)
}
}
Tips
Because we’ve made collect() use rethrows, you only need to call it using try if the call to reduce() would normally throw, so if you have an async sequence that doesn’t throw errors you can skip try entirely.
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