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.
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
Await and return the result (of type T) of an Awaitable.
Await and return the result (of type T) 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 has a result 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
Attributes
Returns
the result value if awaitable is completed within the specific maximum wait time