We need to add blocking methods to CompletionStage!

[Viktor Klang]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
wrote:

> No one is suggesting we add cancel to CompletionStage - I agree that would
> break users, by making an immutable interface mutable.
>

+10000


> This also means that CompletionStage cannot extend Future.
>

+10000


> I also would not want to have a toFuture method that would return a
> j.u.c.Future, because of misfit Future.cancel.
>

Would you mind elaborating here? According to the cancel method spec on
Future it is completely fine for it to be a no-op which always returns
false:

"This attempt will fail if the task has already completed, has already been
cancelled, *or could not be cancelled for some other reason.*"

Source:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html



>   If we are adding cancel, then it will be to make a new interface, such
> as the suggested CancellableCompletionStage.
>
> I also agree that CompletionStage does *not* represent "a running task of
> sorts", j.u.c. Future specs are still confusing in that way due to
> FutureTask heritage.
>

+10000


>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:51 PM, James Roper <james at lightbend.com> wrote:
>
>> For example, we often cache futures and return them from a libraries API,
>> if a client could cancel a future, that would break everything else that
>> received that future.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Viktor Klang <viktor.klang at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> PPS: A misunderstanding is that CompletionStage represents a running task
>> of sorts, one that can be cancelled etc. This is not the case.
>>
>
>
>



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