Module java.base
Package java.util.concurrent

# Class ExecutorCompletionService<V>

java.lang.Object
java.util.concurrent.ExecutorCompletionService<V>

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `CompletionService<V>`

public class ExecutorCompletionService<V> extends Object implements CompletionService<V>
A `CompletionService` that uses a supplied `Executor` to execute tasks. This class arranges that submitted tasks are, upon completion, placed on a queue accessible using `take`. The class is lightweight enough to be suitable for transient use when processing groups of tasks.

Usage Examples. Suppose you have a set of solvers for a certain problem, each returning a value of some type `Result`, and would like to run them concurrently, processing the results of each of them that return a non-null value, in some method `use(Result r)`. You could write this as:

     void solve(Executor e,
                Collection<Callable<Result>> solvers)
         throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
       CompletionService<Result> cs
           = new ExecutorCompletionService<>(e);
       solvers.forEach(cs::submit);
       for (int i = solvers.size(); i > 0; i--) {
         Result r = cs.take().get();
         if (r != null)
           use(r);
       }
     }

Suppose instead that you would like to use the first non-null result of the set of tasks, ignoring any that encounter exceptions, and cancelling all other tasks when the first one is ready:

     void solve(Executor e,
                Collection<Callable<Result>> solvers)
         throws InterruptedException {
       CompletionService<Result> cs
           = new ExecutorCompletionService<>(e);
       int n = solvers.size();
       List<Future<Result>> futures = new ArrayList<>(n);
       Result result = null;
       try {
         solvers.forEach(solver -> futures.add(cs.submit(solver)));
         for (int i = n; i > 0; i--) {
           try {
             Result r = cs.take().get();
             if (r != null) {
               result = r;
               break;
             }
           } catch (ExecutionException ignore) {}
         }
       } finally {
         futures.forEach(future -> future.cancel(true));
       }

       if (result != null)
         use(result);
     }

Since:
  1.5

## Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor
Description
`ExecutorCompletionService(Executor executor)`
Creates an ExecutorCompletionService using the supplied executor for base task execution and a `LinkedBlockingQueue` as a completion queue.
`ExecutorCompletionService(Executor executor, BlockingQueue<Future<V>> completionQueue)`
Creates an ExecutorCompletionService using the supplied executor for base task execution and the supplied queue as its completion queue.

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`Future<V>`
`poll()`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, or `null` if none are present.
`Future<V>`
`poll(long timeout, TimeUnit unit)`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, waiting if necessary up to the specified wait time if none are yet present.
`Future<V>`
`submit(Runnable task, V result)`
Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future representing that task.
`Future<V>`
`submit(Callable<V> task)`
Submits a value-returning task for execution and returns a Future representing the pending results of the task.
`Future<V>`
`take()`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, waiting if none are yet present.

### Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

## Constructor Details

### ExecutorCompletionService

public ExecutorCompletionService(Executor executor)
Creates an ExecutorCompletionService using the supplied executor for base task execution and a `LinkedBlockingQueue` as a completion queue.

Parameters:
  `executor` - the executor to use
Throws:
  `NullPointerException` - if executor is `null`

### ExecutorCompletionService

public ExecutorCompletionService(Executor executor, BlockingQueue<Future<V>> completionQueue)
Creates an ExecutorCompletionService using the supplied executor for base task execution and the supplied queue as its completion queue.

Parameters:
  `executor` - the executor to use
  `completionQueue` - the queue to use as the completion queue normally one dedicated for use by this service. This queue is treated as unbounded -- failed attempted `Queue.add` operations for completed tasks cause them not to be retrievable.
Throws:
  `NullPointerException` - if executor or completionQueue are `null`

## Method Details

### submit

public Future<V> submit(Callable<V> task)
Description copied from interface: `CompletionService`
Submits a value-returning task for execution and returns a Future representing the pending results of the task. Upon completion, this task may be taken or polled.

Specified by:
  `submit` in interface `CompletionService<V>`
Parameters:
  `task` - the task to submit
Returns:
  a Future representing pending completion of the task
Throws:
  `RejectedExecutionException` - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution
  `NullPointerException` - if the task is null

### submit

public Future<V> submit(Runnable task, V result)
Description copied from interface: `CompletionService`
Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future representing that task. Upon completion, this task may be taken or polled.

Specified by:
  `submit` in interface `CompletionService<V>`
Parameters:
  `task` - the task to submit
  `result` - the result to return upon successful completion
Returns:
  a Future representing pending completion of the task, and whose `get()` method will return the given result value upon completion
Throws:
  `RejectedExecutionException` - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution
  `NullPointerException` - if the task is null

### take

public Future<V> take() throws InterruptedException
Description copied from interface: `CompletionService`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, waiting if none are yet present.

Specified by:
  `take` in interface `CompletionService<V>`
Returns:
  the Future representing the next completed task
Throws:
  `InterruptedException` - if interrupted while waiting

### poll

public Future<V> poll()
Description copied from interface: `CompletionService`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, or `null` if none are present.

Specified by:
  `poll` in interface `CompletionService<V>`
Returns:
  the Future representing the next completed task, or `null` if none are present

### poll

public Future<V> poll(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) throws InterruptedException
Description copied from interface: `CompletionService`
Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next completed task, waiting if necessary up to the specified wait time if none are yet present.

Specified by:
  `poll` in interface `CompletionService<V>`
Parameters:
  `timeout` - how long to wait before giving up, in units of `unit`
  `unit` - a `TimeUnit` determining how to interpret the `timeout` parameter
Returns:
  the Future representing the next completed task or `null` if the specified waiting time elapses before one is present
Throws:
  `InterruptedException` - if interrupted while waiting