[infinispan-dev] getAsync() missing?

[Sanne Grinovero]

thanks! I created ISPN-293
It's set for CR3, no problem if you decide to move it out.

Cheers,
Sanne

2009/11/30 Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org>:
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> On 30 Nov 2009, at 07:10, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
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>> For a Lucene Directory optimization;
>> Instead of fetching needed data just-in-time I was planning to do some
>> prefetching: it's easy to predict just before some not-so-trivial
>> methods which data I'm going to need next - like when scrolling on a
>> huge byte array we have scattered into several keys - so I was
>> planning to use a getAsync() method as soon as we feel it's likely to
>> need that value too soon.
>> Like putAsync() does exist I was naturally expecting getAsync() to
>> exist too, but it appears the get methods are missing from the async
>> APIs?
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> I wouldn't have thought a getAsync() would be useful - given that with a get, you would want to block on getting your result anyway as it performs no other useful function other than retrieving data (unlike put, remove, etc).
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>> What would you think of adding them?
>
>> In alternative I could make use of a streaming API, but this would
>> likely be implemented in a similar shape?
>
> The streaming API is probably further away.  Implementing a getAsync() ought to be trivial.  Care to create a JIRA?
>
> Cheers
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