diff --git a/Sources/Async/Worker.swift b/Sources/Async/Worker.swift
index 1888d54c..77d707b1 100644
--- a/Sources/Async/Worker.swift
+++ b/Sources/Async/Worker.swift
@@ -41,6 +41,28 @@ extension Worker {
     public var eventLoop: EventLoop {
         return next()
     }
+    
+    /// Creates a new, succeeded `Future` from the worker's event loop.
+    ///
+    ///    let a: Future<String> = req.future("hello")
+    ///
+    /// - parameters:
+    ///     - value: The value that the future will wrap.
+    /// - returns: The succeeded future.
+    func future<T>(_ value: T) -> Future<T> {
+        return self.eventLoop.newSucceededFuture(result: value)
+    }
+    
+    /// Creates a new, failed `Future` from the worker's event loop.
+    ///
+    ///    let b: Future<String> = req.future(error: Abort(...))
+    ///
+    /// - parameters:
+    ///    - error: The error that the future will wrap.
+    /// - returns: The failed future.
+    func future<T>(error: Error) -> Future<T> {
+        return self.eventLoop.newFailedFuture(error: error)
+    }
 }
 
 /// A basic `Worker` type that has a single `EventLoop`.
diff --git a/Sources/Core/Reflectable.swift b/Sources/Core/Reflectable.swift
index 7b3d919e..744d36ce 100644
--- a/Sources/Core/Reflectable.swift
+++ b/Sources/Core/Reflectable.swift
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ public protocol AnyReflectable {
     ///     try User.reflectProperties(depth: 0) // [id: UUID?, name: String, pet: Pet]
     ///     try User.reflectProperties(depth: 1) // [pet.name: String, pet.age: Int]
     ///
-    /// - parameters: depth: The level of nesting to use.
-    ///                      If `0`, the top-most properties will be returned.
-    ///                      If `1`, the first layer of nested properties, and so-on.
+    /// - parameters:
+    ///     - depth: The level of nesting to use.
+    ///              If `0`, the top-most properties will be returned.
+    ///              If `1`, the first layer of nested properties, and so-on.
     /// - throws: Any error reflecting this type's properties.
     /// - returns: All `ReflectedProperty`s at the specified depth.
     static func reflectProperties(depth: Int) throws -> [ReflectedProperty]
@@ -158,6 +159,13 @@ public struct ReflectedProperty {
     }
 }
 
+extension Collection where Element == ReflectedProperty {
+    /// Removes all optional properties from an array of `ReflectedProperty`.
+    public func optionalsRemoved() -> [ReflectedProperty] {
+         return filter { !($0.type is AnyOptionalType.Type) } 
+    }
+}
+
 extension ReflectedProperty: CustomStringConvertible {
     /// See `CustomStringConvertible.description`
     public var description: String {
diff --git a/Tests/CoreTests/ReflectableTests.swift b/Tests/CoreTests/ReflectableTests.swift
index ae586ef7..cd0fed0e 100644
--- a/Tests/CoreTests/ReflectableTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/CoreTests/ReflectableTests.swift
@@ -52,6 +52,27 @@ class ReflectableTests: XCTestCase {
         try XCTAssert(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.odir)?.type is Direction?.Type)
     }
 
+    func testNonOptionalsOnly() throws {
+        struct Foo: Reflectable, Decodable {
+            var bool: Bool
+            var obool: Bool?
+            var int: Int
+            var oint: Int?
+            var sarr: [String]
+            var osarr: [String]?
+        }
+
+        let properties = try Foo.reflectProperties().optionalsRemoved()
+        XCTAssertEqual(properties.description, "[bool: Bool, int: Int, sarr: Array<String>]")
+
+        try XCTAssertEqual(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.bool)?.path, ["bool"])
+        try XCTAssert(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.bool)?.type is Bool.Type)
+        try XCTAssertEqual(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.int)?.path, ["int"])
+        try XCTAssert(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.int)?.type is Int.Type)
+        try XCTAssertEqual(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.sarr)?.path, ["sarr"])
+        try XCTAssert(Foo.reflectProperty(forKey: \.sarr)?.type is [String].Type)
+    }
+
     func testStructCustomProperties() throws {
         struct User: Reflectable {
             var firstName: String
@@ -265,6 +286,7 @@ class ReflectableTests: XCTestCase {
 
     static let allTests = [
         ("testStruct", testStruct),
+        ("testNonOptionalsOnly", testNonOptionalsOnly),
         ("testStructCustomProperties", testStructCustomProperties),
         ("testNestedStruct", testNestedStruct),
         ("testProperties", testProperties),