Marcin Zajaczkowski created GROOVY-11113:
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Summary: Future.get(Duration) (& similar from
java.util.concurrent) by default with extension module
Key: GROOVY-11113
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11113
Project: Groovy
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Marcin Zajaczkowski
In (for example) Spock tests, to check some asynchronous behavior, people use
classes from java.util.concurrent. It includes Future, *Lock and
CountDownLatch. As those classes were introduced in JDK 5, they use the "long
timeout, TimeUnit unit" pair in the methods which should wait with some
timeout. As people already use there Duration with more modern APIs in their
tests, to make them simpler (more consistent), using an extension module, one
can add the equivalent(s) with Duration (introduced in JDK 8), e.g.
Future.get(Duration timeout). The implementation is trivial, but to be reused
in different projects it has to be packaged as a module.
The proposal is to provide some Duration variants with an extension module by
default.
There seem to be ~100 methods with TimeUnit across the java.util.concurrent. As
discussed on Slack, it seems to be more feasible to provide the Duration
variants for "the most popular methods" and wait for the user feedback (to
potentially add some other).
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