Util Cookbook

util is a collection of Twitter’s core JVM libraries including: concurrency, I/O, caching, stats, time and duration, conversions and so on. It is written in Scala with the intent to be used from Java as well.

This is a cookbook with recipes on how to accomplish many common tasks.

• Basics
  • Getting the result out of a Try
  • Conversions between Twitter’s Try and Scala’s Try
  • Controlling Time for tests
• Futures
  • Conversions between Twitter’s Future and Scala’s Future
  • Blocking or synchronous work
  • Future Recursion
  • Limiting concurrency via semaphores and mutexes
  • Caching Futures
• Input/Output
  • Getting the byte array out of a Buf
  • Getting the String out of a Buf.Utf8
• Reader
  • Interface
  • Example Usages
• Usage from Java
  • Scala’s Functions
  • Compatibility APIs

Contact

For questions email the finaglers@googlegroups.com group.