thenCombine vs thenCompose

[cherylchan02]

Both of these methods are used to combine 2 completable futures asynchronously, but I'm not very sure what differentiates them and which method to use in what circumstance. Would appreciate if someone could explain this thanks!

[valerietanhx]

I believe thenCompose is used if you want to compose two Futures, so the output of one becomes the input of the other. On the other hand, thenCombine is used if you want to put together both the outputs of each Future.

e.g. bar(foo(a)) --> thenCompose, but bar(a) + foo(a) --> thenCombine

CMIIW!

[sumhungyee]

thenCombine is similar to thenApply but uses a Bifunction instead. thenCompose is similar to flatmap, thenApply is map

[mohddanesh]

agree with @sumhungyee. comparing it to map will make it easier to understand