Retrieve a Task’s Results
Learn to use Task.async, which has the property to return a struct containing the executed task’s result.
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The Task.async/1 task
To retrieve the result of a function, we use Task.async/1. It returns a %Task{} struct which we can assign to a variable for later use. We can give it a try in IEx like this:
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task = Task.async(fn -> Sender.send_email("hello@world.com") end)
Here is the output we get:
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