Java8 CompletableFuture for JavaFX and CDI Part I

Java8 CompletableFuture for JavaFX and CDI Part I Java8 will give you a few more tools to solve concurrency problems.
One of them is the CompletableFuture. I will show you, how you could sync the
two different init-cycles from CDI and JavaFX with this.

CDI and JavaFX are using a life-cycle during the init process.
For CDI you can use the method that is annotated with the
AnnotationLiteral @Postconstruct and for JavaFX you can use the method initialize(..)
If you want to have a method that is called after both others are finished you have to think
about the problem that it is not clear which method is called first.
To show more in detail what the problem is let us think about the following.
 
private String pattern;
private SimpleDateFormat sdf;

//beispielhaft für eine init
public void createSDF(){
    this.sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(this.pattern);        
}

//beispielhaft für eine init
public void newPattern(final String pattern) {
    this.pattern = pattern;
}

public String format(final Date date){
    return sdf.fomat(date);
}
To use the method format(..) you must use the methods newPattern(..) and createSDF first.
But both in the right order like the following code snipp.
 
newPattern("yyyy.MM.dd");
createSDF();
final String s = versionAB.format(new Date());
System.out.println("s = " + s);
If you are calling first createSDF(..) for example you will get an exception.
But thinking to the problem with CDI and JavaFX it must be valid to do something like the following.
 
createSDF();
newPattern("yyyy.MM.dd");

final String s = versionAB.format(new Date());
System.out.println("s = " + s);
The method creatdSDF(..) is called before newPattern(..).
The solution is quite simple. The method call from createSDF must be non blocking but
waiting with the execution until newPattern(..) was called.
The same with format(..). This method call must wait until both are finished but itself it
is an blocking method call. This is to give the developer the feeling he expected,
if he is working with the result from format(..).
To solve this we have to booleans called initCompleteA and initCompleteB.
Both are false in the beginning. If newPattern(..) is called initcompleteA will be true,
and initCompleteB will be true after the method creatSDF() is ready.
 
public void newPattern(final String pattern) {
    this.pattern = pattern;
    initCompleteA=true;
    System.out.println("newPattern = " + pattern);
}
public void createSDF(){
    CompletableFuture<Void> supplyAsync
        = CompletableFuture
        .supplyAsync(taskCreateSDF, cachedThreadPool);
    supplyAsync.thenAccept(System.out::println);
}
public Supplier<Void> taskCreateSDF = ()-> {
    while(! initCompleteA ){
        try {
            System.out.println("createSDF is waiting" );
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(4);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
    initCompleteB = true;
    return null;
};
The Method format(..) now is only waiting for both...
 
public Supplier<String> task = ()-> {
//Warten bis alle true
    while(! (initCompleteA && initCompleteB) ){
        try {
            System.out.println("initCompleteA = " + initCompleteA);
            System.out.println("initCompleteB = " + initCompleteB);
            System.out.println("pattern = " + pattern);
            System.out.println("sdf = " + sdf);
            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(1);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return sdf.format(this.date);
};
private Date date;

public String format(final Date date){
    this.date = date;
    supplyAsync = CompletableFuture
        .supplyAsync(task, cachedThreadPool);
    try {
        return supplyAsync.get();
    } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return "";
}
The example you will find at http://stash.rapidpm.org/projects/PUB/repos/jaxenter.de-0016-async-calls/browse
The next Part will show how we have to implement the JavaFX CDI bootstrapping to use this.

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