How do I wrap a java.util.concurrent.Future in an Akka Future?

Question

In a Play Framework 2.0.1 (Scala) application, we are using a web service client library which returns java.util.concurrent.Future as responses.

Instead

Answer 1

You should use akka.dispatch.Futures.future() with java.util.concurrent.Callable:

val akkaFuture: akka.dispatch.Future[String] = akka.dispatch.Futures.future(
  new java.util.concurrent.Callable[String] {
    def call: String = {
      return "scala->" + javaFuture.get
    }
}, executionContext)

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