rough sketch

src/apatheia/macroutils.nim

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ proc firstArgument*(params: NimNode): (NimNode, NimNode) =
     result = (ident "", newNimNode(nnkEmpty))
 
 iterator paramsIter*(params: NimNode): tuple[name, ntype: NimNode] =
+  ## iterators through the parameters
   for i in 1 ..< params.len:
     let arg = params[i]
     let argType = arg[^2]

src/apatheia/tasks.nim

@@ -1,27 +1,42 @@
 
+import std/[macros, strutils]
+
+macro asyncTask*(p: untyped): untyped =
+
+  let
+    procId = p[0]
+    procLineInfo = p.lineInfoObj
+    genericParams = p[2]
+    params = p[3]
+    pragmas = p[4]
+    body = p[6]
+    name = repr(procId).strip(false, true, {'*'})
+  
+  echo "ASYNC_TASK: name: ", name
+  echo "ASYNC_TASK: params: \n", params.treeRepr
+
+proc doHashes*(args: openArray[byte]) {.asyncTask.} =
+
+  echo "args: ", args.len()
+
 
-proc doHashes*[T: object](args: openArray[T], obj: Object) {.asyncTask.} =
+when false:
+  proc doHashesTask*(args: seq[Data]) =
+    discard
 
-  let x = args
+  proc doHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
+    # setup signals ... etc
+    # memory stuffs
+    # create future
+    let argsPtr = addr args[0]
+    let argsLen = args.len()
+    GC_ref(args)
 
-
-proc doHashesTask*(args: seq[Data]) =
-  ...
-
-proc doHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
-  # setup signals ... etc
-  # memory stuffs
-  # create future
-  let argsPtr = addr args[0]
-  let argsLen = args.len()
-  GC_ref(args)
-
-  doHashes(toOpenArray(argsPtr, argsLen))
-  GC_unref(args)
+    doHashes(toOpenArray(argsPtr, argsLen))
+    GC_unref(args)
   
 
-proc processHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
-
-  ## do some processing on another thread
-  let res = await doHashes(args)
+  proc processHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
+    ## do some processing on another thread
+    let res = await doHashes(args)