Question

What is the best way to construct a completed future in Java? I have implemented my own CompletedFuture below, but was hoping something like this that already exists.

public class CompletedFuture<T> implements Future<T> {
    private final T result;

    public CompletedFuture(final T result) {
        this.result = result;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean cancel(final boolean b) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCancelled() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isDone() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public T get() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
        return this.result;
    }

    @Override
    public T get(final long l, final TimeUnit timeUnit) throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException {
        return get();
    }
}

Answer 1

Apache Commons Lang defines similar implementation that is called ConstantFuture, you can get it by calling:

Future<T> future = ConcurrentUtils.constantFuture(T myValue);