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CallbackB.java Example of using Callbacks for nested calls showing the incidental complexity that results and how eventually the asynchronous paths need to be synchronized together.

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import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;

import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;

import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

 

public class CallbackB {

 

    /**

     * Demonstration of nested callbacks which then need to composes their responses together.

     * <p>

     * Various different approaches for composition can be done but eventually they end up relying upon

     * synchronization techniques such as the CountDownLatch used here or converge on callback design

     * changes similar to <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava">Rx</a>.

     */

    public static void run() throws Exception {

        final ExecutorService executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(4, 4, 1, TimeUnit.MINUTES, new LinkedBlockingQueue<Runnable>());

        /* the following are used to synchronize and compose the asynchronous callbacks */

        final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(3);

        final AtomicReference<String> f3Value = new AtomicReference<String>();

        final AtomicReference<Integer> f4Value = new AtomicReference<Integer>();

        final AtomicReference<Integer> f5Value = new AtomicReference<Integer>();

 

        try {

            // get f3 with dependent result from f1

            executor.execute(new CallToRemoteServiceA(new Callback<String>() {

 

                @Override

                public void call(String f1) {

                    executor.execute(new CallToRemoteServiceC(new Callback<String>() {

 

                        @Override

                        public void call(String f3) {

                            // we have f1 and f3 now need to compose with others

                            System.out.println("intermediate callback: " + f3 + " => " + ("f4 * f5"));

                            // set to thread-safe variable accessible by external scope 

                            f3Value.set(f3);

                            latch.countDown();

                        }

 

                    }, f1));

                }

 

            }));

 

            // get f4/f5 after dependency f2 completes 

            executor.execute(new CallToRemoteServiceB(new Callback<Integer>() {

 

                @Override

                public void call(Integer f2) {

                    executor.execute(new CallToRemoteServiceD(new Callback<Integer>() {

 

                        @Override

                        public void call(Integer f4) {

                            // we have f2 and f4 now need to compose with others

                            System.out.println("intermediate callback: f3" + " => " + (f4 + " * f5"));

                            // set to thread-safe variable accessible by external scope 

                            f4Value.set(f4);

                            latch.countDown();

                        }

 

                    }, f2));

                    executor.execute(new CallToRemoteServiceE(new Callback<Integer>() {

 

                        @Override

                        public void call(Integer f5) {

                            // we have f2 and f5 now need to compose with others

                            System.out.println("intermediate callback: f3" + " => " + ("f4 * " + f5));

                            // set to thread-safe variable accessible by external scope 

                            f5Value.set(f5);

                            latch.countDown();

                        }

 

                    }, f2));

                }

 

            }));

 

            /* we must wait for all callbacks to complete */

            latch.await();

            System.out.println(f3Value.get() + " => " + (f4Value.get() * f5Value.get()));

        } finally {

            executor.shutdownNow();

        }

    }

 

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {

            run();

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

    }

 

    private static final class CallToRemoteServiceA implements Runnable {

 

        private final Callback<String> callback;

 

        private CallToRemoteServiceA(Callback<String> callback) {

            this.callback = callback;

        }

 

        @Override

        public void run() {

            // simulate fetching data from remote service

            try {

                Thread.sleep(100);

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

            callback.call("responseA");

        }

    }

 

    private static final class CallToRemoteServiceB implements Runnable {

 

        private final Callback<Integer> callback;

 

        private CallToRemoteServiceB(Callback<Integer> callback) {

            this.callback = callback;

        }

 

        @Override

        public void run() {

            // simulate fetching data from remote service

            try {

                Thread.sleep(40);

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

            callback.call(100);

        }

    }

 

    private static final class CallToRemoteServiceC implements Runnable {

 

        private final Callback<String> callback;

        private final String dependencyFromA;

 

        private CallToRemoteServiceC(Callback<String> callback, String dependencyFromA) {

            this.callback = callback;

            this.dependencyFromA = dependencyFromA;

        }

 

        @Override

        public void run() {

            // simulate fetching data from remote service

            try {

                Thread.sleep(60);

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

            callback.call("responseB_" + dependencyFromA);

        }

    }

 

    private static final class CallToRemoteServiceD implements Runnable {

 

        private final Callback<Integer> callback;

        private final Integer dependencyFromB;

 

        private CallToRemoteServiceD(Callback<Integer> callback, Integer dependencyFromB) {

            this.callback = callback;

            this.dependencyFromB = dependencyFromB;

        }

 

        @Override

        public void run() {

            // simulate fetching data from remote service

            try {

                Thread.sleep(140);

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

            callback.call(40 + dependencyFromB);

        }

    }

 

    private static final class CallToRemoteServiceE implements Runnable {

 

        private final Callback<Integer> callback;

        private final Integer dependencyFromB;

 

        private CallToRemoteServiceE(Callback<Integer> callback, Integer dependencyFromB) {

            this.callback = callback;

            this.dependencyFromB = dependencyFromB;

        }

 

        @Override

        public void run() {

            // simulate fetching data from remote service

            try {

                Thread.sleep(55);

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

            callback.call(5000 + dependencyFromB);

        }

    }

 

    private static interface Callback<T> {

        public void call(T value);

    }

}
aebrett commented

Do you have an example of implementing the same functionality using rx? It would be really useful to be able to contrast an implementation using callbacks with an implementation using rx.

funpluscharity commented

Can you write a gist for using Observable's and composition for this. Corresponding question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28402376/how-to-compose-observables-to-avoid-the-given-nested-and-dependent-callbacks

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