I have controller with method that blocks the Play server thread due to very slow Database query. I need to implement controller method in a way that it don't block the thread. I have read documentation: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2.4/asynchronous
There's absolutely no examples anywhere on how to do this. The only thing that I found close is this https://github.com/playframework/play/blob/master/samples-and-tests/chat/app/controllers/LongPolling.java It simply wraps result in await();
When I try to do that it doesn't work.
routes:
GET /blog Controller.blog
Controller (this is not an actual slow query but everything else is identical):
public static void blog() {
String queryStr = "SELECT b FROM Blog b ORDER BY createTime DESC";
JPAQuery q = Blog.find(queryStr);
List<Blog> bList = q.fetch(100);
List<BlogDTO> list = new ArrayList<BlogDTO>(bList.size());
for (Blog b : bList) {
BlogDTO obj = new BlogDTO(b);
list.add(obj);
}
renderJSON(list);
}
I tried List<Blog> bList = await(q.fetch(100));
but that doesn't work.
I have not worked with Future and promises before. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to approach this?