[cdi-dev] async: back to completion future?

[Reza Rahman]

Already explained what the issue is. This is a usability hazard.

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 2:42 AM, Martin Kouba <mkouba at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Dne 6.3.2016 v 16:37 Reza Rahman napsal(a):
>> How much end user feedback has there been on this? I have to be honest
>> that it surprises me to find this out now.
> 
> Well, this was discussed many times (ML, EG mtgs, F2F, etc.).
> 
>> 
>> This to me stands out as an obvious usability problem. CompletableFuture
>> is the obvious top level end user API, not CompletionStage.
> 
> Is it obvious? For me the CompletionStage looks more appropriate. But I'm open for discussions.
> 
>> Not going
>> with CompletableFuture is very likely to confuse most people. The last
>> thing we need is more potential usability problems in Java EE APIs.
>> 
>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> as a user having a ComlpetionStage makes me loose some JDK utilities,
>>> can we move back to CompletionFuture?
>>> 
>>> It would allow for instance:
>>> 
>>> // doesn't work with CompletionStage
>>> CompletionFuture.allOf(event1.fireAsync(...), event2.fireAsync(...))
>>>      .then(...)
>>> 
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