Await

Await is what is used to ensure proper handling of blocking for Awaitable instances.

While occasionally useful, e.g. for testing, it is recommended that you avoid Await whenever possible— instead favoring combinators and/or callbacks. Await's result and ready methods will block the calling thread's execution until they return, which will cause performance degradation, and possibly, deadlock issues.

Source:: package.scala

class Object

trait Matchable

class Any

Await.type

Value members

Concrete methods

Await the "completed" state of an Awaitable.

Although this method is blocking, the internal use of blocking ensures that the underlying ExecutionContext is given an opportunity to properly manage the blocking.

WARNING: It is strongly discouraged to supply lengthy timeouts since the progress of the calling thread will be suspended—blocked—until either the Awaitable becomes ready or the timeout expires.

Value parameters:

atMost: maximum wait time, which may be negative (no waiting is done), Duration.Inf for unbounded waiting, or a finite positive duration
awaitable: the Awaitable to be awaited

Returns:

the awaitable

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException: if atMost is Duration.Undefined
InterruptedException: if the current thread is interrupted while waiting
TimeoutException: if after waiting for the specified time this Awaitable is still not ready

Source:

package.scala

Await and return the result (of type T) of an Awaitable.