How to cancel Java 8 completable future?

Question

I am playing with Java 8 completable futures. I have the following code:

CountDownLatch waitLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);

CompletableFuture future         


        

Answer 1

You need an alternative implementation of CompletionStage to accomplish true thread interruption. I've just released a small library that serves exactly this purpose - https://github.com/vsilaev/tascalate-concurrent