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sealed abstract class CancelablePromise[A] extends Promise[A]

CancelablePromise is a scala.concurrent.Promise implementation that allows listeners to unsubscribe from receiving future results.

It does so by:

  • adding a low-level subscribe method, that allows for callbacks to be subscribed
  • returning CancelableFuture in its future method implementation, allowing created future objects to unsubscribe (being the high-level subscribe that should be preferred for most usage)

Being able to unsubscribe listeners helps with avoiding memory leaks in case of listeners or futures that are being timed-out due to promises that take a long time to complete.

Source
CancelablePromise.scala
See also

subscribe

future

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  1. abstract def future: CancelableFuture[A]

    Returns a future that can unsubscribe from this promise's notifications via cancelation.

    Returns a future that can unsubscribe from this promise's notifications via cancelation.

    val promise = CancelablePromise[Int]()
    
    val future1 = promise.future
    val future2 = promise.future
    
    for (r <- future1) println(s"Future1 completed with: $$r")
    for (r <- future2) println(s"Future2 completed with: $$r")
    
    // Unsubscribing from the future notification, but only for future1
    future1.cancel()
    
    // Completing our promise
    promise.success(99)
    
    //=> Future2 completed with: 99

    Note that in the above example future1 becomes non-terminating after cancellation. By unsubscribing its listener, it will never complete.

    This helps with avoiding memory leaks for futures that are being timed-out due to promises that take a long time to complete.

    Definition Classes
    CancelablePromise → Promise
  2. abstract def isCompleted: Boolean
    Definition Classes
    Promise
  3. abstract def subscribe(cb: (Try[A]) => Unit): Cancelable

    Low-level subscription method that registers a callback to be called when this promise will complete.

    Low-level subscription method that registers a callback to be called when this promise will complete.

    val promise = CancelablePromise[Int]()
    
    def subscribe(n: Int): Cancelable =
      promise.subscribe {
        case Success(str) =>
          println(s"Callback ($$n) completed with: $$str")
        case Failure(e) =>
          println(s"Callback ($$n) completed with: $$e")
      }
    
    val token1 = subscribe(1)
    val token2 = subscribe(2)
    
    // Unsubscribing from the future notification
    token1.cancel()
    
    // Completing our promise
    promise.success(99)
    
    //=> Callback (2) completed with: 99

    UNSAFE PROTOCOL: the implementation does not protect against stack-overflow exceptions. There's no point in doing it for such low level methods, because this is useful as middleware and different implementations will have different ways to deal with stack safety (e.g. monix.eval.Task).

    cb

    is a callback that will be called when the promise completes with a result, assuming that the returned cancelable token isn't canceled

    returns

    a cancelable token that can be used to unsubscribe the given callback, in order to prevent memory leaks, at which point the callback will never be called (if it wasn't called already)

  4. abstract def tryComplete(result: Try[A]): Boolean
    Definition Classes
    Promise

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  1. final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean
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  2. final def ##(): Int
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  3. final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean
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  4. final def asInstanceOf[T0]: T0
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  5. def clone(): AnyRef
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    @throws(classOf[java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException]) @native()
  6. def complete(result: Try[A]): CancelablePromise.this.type
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    Promise
  7. def completeWith(other: Future[A]): CancelablePromise.this.type
    Definition Classes
    Promise
  8. final def eq(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean
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  9. def equals(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean
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  10. def failure(cause: Throwable): CancelablePromise.this.type
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  11. def finalize(): Unit
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  12. final def getClass(): Class[_ <: AnyRef]
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  13. def hashCode(): Int
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  14. final def isInstanceOf[T0]: Boolean
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  15. final def ne(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean
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  16. final def notify(): Unit
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    @native()
  17. final def notifyAll(): Unit
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    @native()
  18. def success(value: A): CancelablePromise.this.type
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  19. final def synchronized[T0](arg0: => T0): T0
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  20. def toString(): String
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  21. def tryFailure(cause: Throwable): Boolean
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  22. def trySuccess(value: A): Boolean
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  23. final def wait(): Unit
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  24. final def wait(arg0: Long, arg1: Int): Unit
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  25. final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit
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    @throws(classOf[java.lang.InterruptedException]) @native()

Deprecated Value Members

  1. final def tryCompleteWith(other: Future[A]): CancelablePromise.this.type
    Definition Classes
    Promise
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    @deprecated
    Deprecated

    (Since version 2.13.0) Since this method is semantically equivalent to completeWith, use that instead.

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