Return CompletableFuture or CompletableFuture<?>?

Question

I want to write an asynchronous method that returns a CompletableFuture. The only purpose of the future is to track when the method is complete, not its result. Would it be bett

Answer 1

Would it be better to return CompletableFuture or CompletableFuture

Is there a reason to prefer one or the other, or are they interchangeable?

There are three contexts which code may affect:

• Runtime - generics have no implication on it.
• Compile - I can't imagine a case where some method will accept Future but won't accept Future.
• Development - if Future's result have no meaning, then it is a good practice to say about that to the users through the declaration.

So Future is more preferable.