Futures patterns

Dependency

Akka offers tiny helpers for use with FuturesCompletionStage. These are part of Akka’s core module:

sbt

val AkkaVersion = "2.7.1"
libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-actor" % AkkaVersion

Maven

<properties>
  <scala.binary.version>2.13</scala.binary.version>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
      <artifactId>akka-bom_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
      <version>2.7.1</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-actor_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Gradle

def versions = [
  ScalaBinary: "2.13"
]
dependencies {
  implementation platform("com.typesafe.akka:akka-bom_${versions.ScalaBinary}:2.7.1")

  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_${versions.ScalaBinary}"
}

After

akka.pattern.afterakka.pattern.Patterns.after makes it easy to complete a FutureCompletionStage with a value or exception after a timeout.

Scala

copysourceval delayed =
  akka.pattern.after(200.millis)(Future.failed(new IllegalStateException("OHNOES")))

val future = Future { Thread.sleep(1000); "foo" }
val result = Future.firstCompletedOf(Seq(future, delayed))

Java

copysourceimport akka.pattern.Patterns;

CompletionStage<String> failWithException =
    CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
        () -> {
          throw new IllegalStateException("OHNOES1");
        });
CompletionStage<String> delayed =
    Patterns.after(Duration.ofMillis(200), system, () -> failWithException);

Retry

akka.pattern.retryakka.pattern.Patterns.retry will retry a FutureCompletionStage some number of times with a delay between each attempt.

Scala

copysourceimport akka.actor.typed.scaladsl.adapter._
implicit val scheduler: akka.actor.Scheduler = system.scheduler.toClassic
implicit val ec: ExecutionContext = system.executionContext

//Given some future that will succeed eventually
@volatile var failCount = 0
def futureToAttempt() = {
  if (failCount < 5) {
    failCount += 1
    Future.failed(new IllegalStateException(failCount.toString))
  } else Future.successful(5)
}

//Return a new future that will retry up to 10 times
val retried: Future[Int] = akka.pattern.retry(() => futureToAttempt(), attempts = 10, 100 milliseconds)

Java

copysourceimport akka.pattern.Patterns;

Callable<CompletionStage<String>> attempt = () -> CompletableFuture.completedFuture("test");

CompletionStage<String> retriedFuture =
    Patterns.retry(attempt, 3, java.time.Duration.ofMillis(200), system);