public static LazyF <TRes> Fmap <TInner, TRes>(this LazyF <TInner> app, Func <TInner, TRes> f) => ((IFunctor <LazyF <TInner>, TInner>)app).FmapImpl <LazyF <TRes>, TRes>(f);
public static async Task Run() { // Create a functor Lazy<int> containing a 5. var a = new LazyF <int>(() => 5); // Example for direct use of IFunctor interface. var res1_functor = ((IFunctor <LazyF <int>, int>)a); var res1_exec = res1_functor.FmapImpl <LazyF <string>, string>( x => (x + 2).ToString()); var res1 = ((LazyF <string>)res1_exec); // Instead of x.Value as above, we can call Unbox on the input to the function. var res2 = a.Fmap <int, string>(x => (x + 3).ToString()); // Type argument are inferred now that we have simplified it var res3 = a.Fmap(x => (x + 4).ToString()); // There is also support for chaining! var res4 = a.Fmap(x => x + 5).Fmap(x => x.ToString()); Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.PrettyPrint(JsonSerializer.Serialize( new { res1 = await res1.Unbox(), res2 = await res2.Unbox(), res3 = await res3.Unbox(), res4 = await res4.Unbox() } ))); // // Let's spice it up and use a Task var b = new LazyTaskF <int>(() => Task.FromResult(5)); var res5 = b.Fmap(x => x + 6).Fmap(x => x.ToString()); // Unsurprising, it behaves exactly like Lazy from before.. // // Lets actually do something then. var requestUri = "https://www.dennis-s.dk"; var res6 = LazyTaskF.Create( () => new System.Net.Http.HttpClient().GetStreamAsync(requestUri)) .Fmap(x => WriteToFileAsync("index.html", x)) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(x => x.Result.Close())) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(_ => System.IO.File.ReadAllTextAsync("index.html"))) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(x => x.Result.ToCharArray().Count())); // Not impressive huh.. Looks a lot like we could just use a few "await" instead of all those Fmaps. // Lets try a sequence. var c = new[] { 1, 2, 3 }; var res7 = ListA.Create(c) .Fmap(x => x + 1) .Fmap(x => x.ToString()); // As expected, it looks exactly like Linq. // We can use it to do multiple things, but again, not very interesting var requestUris = new[] { "https://www.dennis-s.dk", "https://www.dennis-s.dk/404" }; var res8 = ListA.Create(requestUris) .Fmap( url => LazyTaskF.Create <System.IO.Stream>( () => new System.Net.Http.HttpClient().GetStreamAsync(url)) .Fmap(x => WriteToFileAsync("index.html", x)) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(x => x.Result.Close())) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(_ => System.IO.File.ReadAllTextAsync("index.html"))) .Fmap(t => t.ContinueWith(x => x.Result.ToCharArray().Count())) ); Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.PrettyPrint(JsonSerializer.Serialize( new { res5 = await res5.Unbox(), res6 = await res6.Unbox(), res7 = await res7.Unbox(), res8 = await res8.Unbox() } ))); // Helper method to return a written filestream async Task <System.IO.FileStream> WriteToFileAsync(string filename, System.IO.Stream x) { var file = new System.IO.FileStream(filename, System.IO.FileMode.Create); await x.CopyToAsync(file); return(file); } }