Extend our futures trait for better ergonomics with remote handles

Simplify dealing with spawning a task on a runtime that returns a remote a
handle that can be used to stop it.

daemon/src/connection.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+use crate::tokio_ext::FutureExt;
 use crate::{log_error, noise, send_to_socket, wire};
 use anyhow::Result;
 use futures::future::RemoteHandle;
-use futures::{FutureExt, StreamExt};
+use futures::StreamExt;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};
@@ -104,11 +105,10 @@ impl Actor {
         let this = ctx.address().expect("self to be alive");
         tokio::spawn(this.attach_stream(read));
 
-        let (pulse_future, pulse_remote_handle) = ctx
+        let pulse_remote_handle = ctx
             .notify_interval(self.timeout, || MeasurePulse)
             .expect("we just started")
-            .remote_handle();
+            .spawn_with_handle();
-        tokio::spawn(pulse_future);
 
         self.connected_state = Some(ConnectedState {
             last_heartbeat: SystemTime::now(),

daemon/src/tokio_ext.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+use futures::future::RemoteHandle;
+use futures::FutureExt as _;
 use std::fmt;
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -17,6 +19,12 @@ where
 
 pub trait FutureExt: Future + Sized {
     fn timeout(self, duration: Duration) -> Timeout<Self>;
+
+    /// Spawn the future on a task in the runtime and return a RemoteHandle to it.
+    /// The task will be stopped when the handle gets dropped.
+    fn spawn_with_handle(self) -> RemoteHandle<Self::Output>
+    where
+        Self: Future<Output = ()> + Send + 'static;
 }
 
 impl<F> FutureExt for F
@@ -26,4 +34,13 @@ where
     fn timeout(self, duration: Duration) -> Timeout<F> {
         timeout(duration, self)
     }
+
+    fn spawn_with_handle(self) -> RemoteHandle<()>
+    where
+        Self: Future<Output = ()> + Send + 'static,
+    {
+        let (future, handle) = self.remote_handle();
+        tokio::spawn(future);
+        handle
+    }
 }