Return value from ExecutorService

Let’s imagine that we have a task:

public class Task implements Runnable {
  @Override
  public void run() {
    ..
  }
}

And the code for its execution:

ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutr();
executor.execute(new Task());

And we need to get the return value after completing the task. For this, Runnable must be replaced with Callable:

public class Task implements Callable<Object> {
  @Override
  public Object call() {
    ...
    return "return_data!";
  }
}

And when sending a task to an ExecutorService, you need to use submit method instead of execute, and capture a Future<Object> object:

Future<Object> future = executor.submit(new Task());
...
System.out.println("return value = " + future.get().toString());

If you still have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comments under this article, or write me on promark33@gmail.com.