frenetic-lang/frenetic — pull request #310 by seliopou (2014-06-23 20:25:24+00:00)
Title: Asynchronous Applications

This pull request makes it possible to write applications that produce asynchronous policy updates by introducing a new constructor for `app`s. This constructor takes an `async_handler` that in addition to being passed a `Pipe.Writer.t` to emit `packet_out`s is also given one for writing asynchronous `policy` updates. The handler is still required to return an optional policy as a result. The API for synchronous applications remains unchanged.