Timeout with default value in Java 8 CompletableFuture

CompletableFuture.supplyAsync is just a helper method that creates a CompletableFuture for you, and submits the task to the ForkJoin Pool.

You can create your own supplyAsync with your requirements like this:

private static final ScheduledExecutorService schedulerExecutor = 
                                 Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(10);
private static final ExecutorService executorService = 
                                 Executors.newCachedThreadPool();


public static <T> CompletableFuture<T> supplyAsync(
        final Supplier<T> supplier, long timeoutValue, TimeUnit timeUnit,
        T defaultValue) {

    final CompletableFuture<T> cf = new CompletableFuture<T>();

    // as pointed out by Peti, the ForkJoinPool.commonPool() delivers a 
    // ForkJoinTask implementation of Future, that doesn't interrupt when cancelling
    // Using Executors.newCachedThreadPool instead in the example
    // submit task
    Future<?> future = executorService.submit(() -> {
        try {
            cf.complete(supplier.get());
        } catch (Throwable ex) {
            cf.completeExceptionally(ex);
        }
    });

    //schedule watcher
    schedulerExecutor.schedule(() -> {
        if (!cf.isDone()) {
            cf.complete(defaultValue);
            future.cancel(true);
        }

    }, timeoutValue, timeUnit);

    return cf;
}

Creating the CompletableFuture with that helper is as easy as using the static method in CompletableFuture:

    CompletableFuture<String> a = supplyAsync(() -> "hi", 1,
            TimeUnit.SECONDS, "default");

To test it:

    a = supplyAsync(() -> {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(2000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
            // ignore
        }
        return "hi";
    }, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS, "default");