Apply timeout control around Java operation

Question

I\'m using a third party Java library to interact with a REST API. The REST API can sometimes take a long time to respond, eventually resulting in a java.net.ConnectExcept

Answer 1

Now we have our nice CompletableFuture , here an application to achieve what was asked.

CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(this::foo).get(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS)