[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (JGRP-971) RpcDispatcher/MessageDispatcher: additional methods which return a Future rather than blocking

RpcDispatcher/MessageDispatcher: additional methods which return a Future rather than blocking ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JGRP-971 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JGRP-971 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Bela Ban Assignee: Bela Ban Fix For: 2.8 Currently, synchronous (cluster-wide) calls in RpcDispatcher and MessageDispatcher block until all (or a portion) of the responses have been received. Goal: to provide additional methods for callRemoteMethods() and castMessage() which return a Future<RspList>. This allows a user to dispatch multiple blocking calls and fetch the result later, e.g. (pseudo code): Future<RspList> r1, r2; r1=dispatcher.callRemoteMethods(null, "foo", new Object[]{10}, new Class[](int.class}, GroupRequest.GET_ALL, 5000); r2=dispatcher.callRemoteMethods(null, "bar", new Object[]{10}, new Class[](int.class}, GroupRequest.GET_ALL, 5000); // do something if(r1.isDone()) { RspList rsp_1=r1.getResult(); } This should be combined with a notification mechanism (RspFilter) so a users gets notified (if desired) of each response, and also when the result is complete