[infinispan-dev] Distributed Executor remote cancellation

[William Burns]

Recently we have been moving a lot of our methods that return Future [1] to
CompletableFuture [2].  Unfortunately the latter, CompletableFuture,
doesn't allow for cancellation of the future, since there is no thread tied
to it.  So I am proposing that our DistributedExecutorService [3] no longer
allows for interruption of remote threads on a cancellation.  This way we
can have our distributed executor service return CompletableFuture
instances which do not support interruption.

Also to note that DistributedExecutorService extends ExecutorService which
returns a normal Future which is documented as allowing cancellation.  In
this case I would just document on DistributedExecutorService that we don't
support interruption anyways.

Does anyone require the use of interruptable tasks with Distributed
Executor?

Thanks,

 - Will

[1]
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
[2]
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html
[3]
https://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/8.1/apidocs/org/infinispan/distexec/DistributedExecutorService.html
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