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stephen mallette edited comment on TINKERPOP-1490 at 10/8/16 11:54 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- {{future}} with an extension of {{FutureTask}} seems good to me, though i don't think we should ignore {{CompletableFuture}}. {{Traversal}} should have: {code} void promise(CompletableFuture future) // perhaps we just start a thread to iterate the traversal (i.e no thread pool) void promise(CompletableFuture future, ExecutorService executor) // in this case we provide a thread pool to execute in {code} {{CompletableFuture}} provides a lot more flexibility for handling exceptions, starting async tasks in different executors, and clarifies situations with lots of callback chaining. It makes it trivial to do stuff like: {code} promiseOutNames = new CompletableFuture() promiseInNames = new CompletableFuture().thenAccept(f -> transformResult(f)) promiseBothNames = promiseInNames.thenCombine(promiseOutNames, (in,out) -> combineInOut(in, out)). thenRunAsync(f -> notifySomethingOfBoth(f), gremlinServerExecutorService) g.V(1).out().values("name").promise(promise1) g.V(1).in().values("name").promise(promise2) {code} So the above would traverse in/out vertices in parallel across two separate threads, combine the results and then make an async call to notify some service about the combined results. was (Author: spmallette): {{future}} with an extension of {{FutureTask}} seems good to me, though i don't think we should ignore {{CompletableFuture}}. {{Traversal}} should have: {code} void promise(CompletableFuture future) // in this case, perhaps we just start a thread to iterate the traversal in gremlinServerExecutorService (i.e no thread pool) void promise(CompletableFuture future, ExecutorService executor) // in this case we provide a thread pool to execute in {code} {{CompletableFuture}} provides a lot more flexibility for handling exceptions, starting async tasks in different executors, and clarifies situations with lots of callback chaining. It makes it trivial to do stuff like: {code} promiseOutNames = new CompletableFuture() promiseInNames = new CompletableFuture().thenAccept(f -> transformResult(f)) promiseBothNames = promiseInNames.thenCombine(promiseOutNames, (in,out) -> combineInOut(in, out)). thenRunAsync(f -> notifySomethingOfBoth(f), gremlinServerExecutorService) g.V(1).out().values("name").promise(promise1) g.V(1).in().values("name").promise(promise2) {code} So the above would traverse in/out vertices in parallel across two separate threads, combine the results and then make an async call to notify some service about the combined results. > Provider a Future based Traversal.async(Function<Traversal,V>) terminal step > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TINKERPOP-1490 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1490 > Project: TinkerPop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: language-variant, process > Affects Versions: 3.2.2 > Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez > > [~mbroecheler] had the idea of adding a {{Traversal.async()}} method. This is > important for not only avoiding thread locking on a query in Gremlin, but > also, it will allow single threaded language variants like Gremlin-JavaScript > to use callbacks for processing query results. > {code} > Future<List<String>> result = > g.V().out().values("name").async(Traversal::toList) > {code} > {code} > Future<List<String>> result = g.V().out().name.async{it.toList()} > {code} > {code} > g.V().out().values('name').async((err,names) => { > // I don't know JavaScript, but ... > return list(names); > }) > {code} > ... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)