Support CompletableFuture as alternative to DeferredResult in MVC [SPR-12597]

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Francisco Lozano opened SPR-12597 and commented

It would be great if, when using Java 8, CompletableFuture (or CompletionStage) was supported as return method of MVC controllers.

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Issue Links:

• Support CompletableFuture as alternative to DeferredResult in MVC [SPR-12598] #17199 Support CompletableFuture as alternative to DeferredResult in MVC ("is duplicated by")
• Support CompletableFuture as return value in @MessageMapping handlers [SPR-12207] #16821 Support CompletableFuture as return value in @MessageMapping handlers
• Support CompletableFuture<> as return type of @Async methods [SPR-13128] #17719 Support CompletableFuture<> as return type of @Async methods
• Consistently support CompletionStage next to CompletableFuture [SPR-15258] #19823 Consistently support CompletionStage next to CompletableFuture

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Yaroslav Gnatyuk commented

Please add CompletableFuture as supported return type to official Spring Web MVC documentation:
https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Good point, mentioning it next to ListenableFuture there now.