Firing events asynchronously ----------------------------- Key: CDI-499 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-499 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Events Affects Versions: 1.2.Final Reporter: Antoine Sabot-Durand We should allow a way to fire event asynchronously. This mechanism should leverage new async API in JDK8 especially the {{CompletionStage}} interface. Our proposal is: h2. 1. Add {{fireAsync()}} method to {{Event}} and {{BeanManager}} Signature of the method on {{Event<T>}} would be {code:java} <U extends T> CompletionStage<U> fireAsync(U event); {code} Signature on {{BeanManager}} would be {code:java} <T> CompletionStage<T> fireAsyncEvent(T event, Annotation... qualifiers) {code} h2. 2. Add an {{asyncSupported()}} member to {{@Observes}} For backward compatibility reason the possibility to invoke an observer asynchronously should be let to the observer (legacy observers should be called synchronously). We propose to add the boolean {{asyncSupported()}} member with the {{false}} default value to support this backward compatibility aspect. So to be notified asynchronously an observer should have {{asyncSupported}} member to true. otherwise it will be called synchronously. h2. 3. Observer bound to a transaction phase these observer will be invoked in the right transaction phase but asynchronously h2. 4. Event Ordering Should we decide to add events ordering in CDI 2.0, the order will be keep in asynchronous observer notification. If there are a mix of synchronous and asynchronous observer, asynchronous will be called first in order, then synchronous in their order (async has priority on sync). h2. 5. Event state (payload mutability) We'll keep payload mutability with async events (but should explicitly specify it). That means that we should guarantee the event state consistency between observers and in case of ordered observers the fact that observer N+1 get the event state at the end of observer N.