A parallel HttpClient sendAync question

[Pavel Rappo]

> On 13 Nov 2018, at 02:35, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm scanning a file and downloading links inside:
> 
> lines.flapMap(x -> Stream.ofNullable(findURIFrom(x)))
>     .map(l -> download(c, l))
>     .forEach(f -> f.join());
> 
> CompletableFuture<HttpResponse<Path>> download(HttpClient c, URI link) {
>    return c.sendAsync(HttpRequest.newBuilder(link).build(),
>            HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofFile(Path.of(link.getPath())));
> }
> 
> However, it seems the download is one by one and not parallel.

1. CompletableFuture.join waits until the result (or exception) is available
2. I guess the "lines" stream is created from Files.lines(Path)? If so, then

    * this method does not read all lines into a {@code List}, but instead
    * populates lazily as the stream is consumed

> I can only collect the jobs into a list and then call join() on CompletableFuture.allOf(list). Is there a simpler way?

This seems to be a correct way of waiting until all the links have been
downloaded (possibly in parallel, depending on the Executor you use for
HttpClient) or an error occurred.