Provide vert.x executor adapter which implements ScheduledExecutorService

[codekrolik2]

Describe the feature

Vert.x executor has a number of very useful features, notably the ability to detect and address locked threads.
Providing a standard interface for this executor will immensely enhance its utility.

Use cases

e.g. that will add compatibility with Guava ListenableFutures, and all other libraries that use standard java executor.

Contribution

For now I'll just leave this proposal here.

[vietj]

it is not clear exactly what you want to do, can you describe further more and provide example use cases ?

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[codekrolik2]

Something like this:

    int threadCount = 5;
    //ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecutor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(threadCount);
    ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecutor = Vertx.vertx();
    ListeningScheduledExecutorService exec = MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(scheduledExecutor);
    ListenableFuture<Void> unused = Futures.transform(Futures.immediateFuture("Hello world."),
        s -> {
          System.out.println(s);
          return null;
        },
        exec);

[vietj]

you would like the Vertx interface to extend ScheduledExecutorService ?

[vietj]

what are the use cases ?

[codekrolik2]

you would like the Vertx interface to extend ScheduledExecutorService ?

Either that, or have a way to adapt is to ScheduledExecutorService.

what are the use cases ?

If I'm using standard ScheduledExecutorService, a thread can be blocked, and that's not detected or reported.
Vert.x detects that and prevents blocking.
That's a great property that I'd love to leverage in a lightweight workflow engine project I'm currently working on.
The idea is that the engine should be lightweight, portable and work everywhere, including limited hardware, like android and embedded platforms.
In such environments it's extremely important to minimize the number of used threads, ideally to 1, and if by some programmer's mistake a flow would block a thread - it could severely impact the performance or even completely halt all execution; especially if there is only 1 thread in the pool.

Vert.x provides a great utility in the form of auto-detecting such situations and throwing exceptions / unblocking threads, which also helps to make such hard to detect problems very visible.

[vietj]

what kind of workload do you want to execute with this executor ?

[codekrolik2]

It's a universal programmable workflow engine, it can be used for any type of workloads.
More details here:
https://github.com/ja-css/flower