Thread.sleep and scala.concurrent.blocking

[Carl Pulley]

(cross posted to the scalatest gitter channel)

I've noticed that when async or future testing using eventually or whenReady, the underlying code is blocking (because it ultimately calls Thread.sleep).

Are there any specific reasons that these blocking usages of Thread.sleep have not been wrapped in the scala.concurrent.blocking method?

Many thanks,

  Carl.

[Bill Venners]

Hi Carl,

Eventually probably predated the addition of Futures into Scala, but
that said I was unaware of the blocking method or what it does. I will
investigate, but if you want to explain what it does here, please do.

Thanks.

Bill

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[Carl Pulley]

Hi Bill,

  a good blog post on this subject is available at Demystifying the blocking construct and the global execution context in Scala by Herve Eichwald.

Hope that helps,

  Carl.