A pipeline with thenApply, thenCompose and thenCombine
CompletableFuture (Java 8) is a Future you can build pipelines on: start work asynchronously, transform results with thenApply, chain dependent calls with thenCompose, combine independent ones with thenCombine/allOf, and handle failures with exceptionally/handle, without blocking a thread at every step.
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Practice questions
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Start two async tasks that return 6 and 7, multiply their results with thenCombine and print the product.
Make a chain that parses "x12" as an int asynchronously and falls back to -1 on failure.
Explain it without notes
What can CompletableFuture do that a plain Future can't?
Explain the difference between thenApply and thenCompose.
How do exceptions propagate through a CompletableFuture chain, and how do you handle them?
Expected output
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