How to interrupt underlying execution of CompletableFuture

Question

I know that CompletableFuture design does not control its execution with interruptions, but I suppose some of you might have this problem. CompletableFutu

Answer 1

If you use

cf.get();

instead of

cf.join();

The thread waiting on the completion can be interrupted. This bit me in the a**, so I'm just putting it out there. You'd then need to propagate this interruption further / use cf.cancel(...) to really finish the execution.