For anyone just following the dev list, this is completed. On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 12:34 AM, Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca> wrote:
> For what it's worth there exists a relatively easy Java8 to Scala future > conversion so this shouldn't cause an issue on the Spark runner. > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:22 PM, Alexey Romanenko < > aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1, sounds great! >> >> Regards, >> Alexey >> >> >> On 2 Feb 2018, at 07:14, Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> >> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Regards >>> JB >>> >>> On 02/01/2018 07:54 PM, Kenneth Knowles wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > Luke, Thomas, and I had some in-person discussions about the use of >>> Java 8 >>> > futures and Guava futures in the portability support code. I wanted to >>> bring our >>> > thoughts to the dev list for feedback. >>> > >>> > As background: >>> > >>> > - Java 5+ "Future" lacks the main purpose of future, which is async >>> chaining. >>> > - Guava introduced ListenableFuture to do real future-oriented >>> programming >>> > - Java 8 added CompletionStage which is more-or-less the expected >>> interface >>> > >>> > It is still debatable whether Java got it right [1]. But since it is >>> > standardized, doesn't need to be shaded, etc, it is worth trying to >>> just use it >>> > carefully in the right ways. So we thought to propose that we migrate >>> most uses >>> > of Guava futures to Java 8 futures. >>> > >>> > What do you think? Have we missed an important problem that would make >>> this a >>> > deal-breaker? >>> > >>> > Kenn >>> > >>> > [1] >>> > e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38744943/listenable >>> future-vs-completablefuture#comment72041244_39250452 >>> > and such discussions are likely to occur whenever you bring it up with >>> someone >>> > who cares a lot about futures :-) >>> >>> -- >>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré >>> jbono...@apache.org >>> http://blog.nanthrax.net >>> Talend - http://www.talend.com >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau >
