Package javax.ws.rs.client

Interface AsyncInvoker

public interface AsyncInvoker

Uniform interface for asynchronous invocation of HTTP methods.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Marek Potociar

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Future<Response>	delete()	Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	delete(Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	delete(InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	delete(GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	get()	Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	get(Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	get(InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	get(GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	head()	Invoke HTTP HEAD method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	head(InvocationCallback<Response> callback)	Invoke HTTP HEAD method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	method(String name)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, Class<T> responseType)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	method(String name, Entity<?> entity)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, Entity<?> entity, Class<T> responseType)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, Entity<?> entity, InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, Entity<?> entity, GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	method(String name, GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	options()	Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	options(Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	options(InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	options(GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	post(Entity<?> entity)	Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	post(Entity<?> entity, Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	post(Entity<?> entity, InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	post(Entity<?> entity, GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	put(Entity<?> entity)	Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	put(Entity<?> entity, Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	put(Entity<?> entity, InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	put(Entity<?> entity, GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.
Future<Response>	trace()	Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	trace(Class<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	trace(InvocationCallback<T> callback)	Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.
<T> Future<T>	trace(GenericType<T> responseType)	Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.

Method Detail

get

Future<Response> get()

Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. Note that in case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Returns:

invocation response future.

get

<T> Future<T> get(Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

get

<T> Future<T> get(GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

get

<T> Future<T> get(InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP GET method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

put

Future<Response> put(Entity<?> entity)

Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

Returns:

invocation response future.

put

<T> Future<T> put(Entity<?> entity,
                  Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

put

<T> Future<T> put(Entity<?> entity,
                  GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

put

<T> Future<T> put(Entity<?> entity,
                  InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP PUT method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

post

Future<Response> post(Entity<?> entity)

Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

Returns:

invocation response future.

Throws:

ProcessingException - in case the invocation processing has failed.

post

<T> Future<T> post(Entity<?> entity,
                   Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

post

<T> Future<T> post(Entity<?> entity,
                   GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

post

<T> Future<T> post(Entity<?> entity,
                   InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP POST method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

delete

Future<Response> delete()

Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Returns:

invocation response future.

delete

<T> Future<T> delete(Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

delete

<T> Future<T> delete(GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

delete

<T> Future<T> delete(InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP DELETE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

head

Future<Response> head()

Invoke HTTP HEAD method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Returns:

invocation response future.

head

Future<Response> head(InvocationCallback<Response> callback)

Invoke HTTP HEAD method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Parameters:

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

options

Future<Response> options()

Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Returns:

invocation response future.

options

<T> Future<T> options(Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

options

<T> Future<T> options(GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

options

<T> Future<T> options(InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP OPTIONS method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

trace

Future<Response> trace()

Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Returns:

invocation response future.

trace

<T> Future<T> trace(Class<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

trace

<T> Future<T> trace(GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

trace

<T> Future<T> trace(InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke HTTP TRACE method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

Future<Response> method(String name)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Parameters:

name - method name.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     Class<T> responseType)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

Future<Response> method(String name,
                        Entity<?> entity)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Parameters:

name - method name.

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     Entity<?> entity,
                     Class<T> responseType)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     Entity<?> entity,
                     GenericType<T> responseType)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the specified response type is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

responseType - representation of a generic Java type the response entity will be converted to.

Returns:

invocation response future.

method

<T> Future<T> method(String name,
                     Entity<?> entity,
                     InvocationCallback<T> callback)

Invoke an arbitrary method for the current request asynchronously.

Note that calling the Future.get() method on the returned Future instance may throw an ExecutionException that wraps either a ProcessingException thrown in case of an invocation processing failure or a WebApplicationException or one of its subclasses thrown in case the received response status code is not successful and the generic type of the supplied response callback is not Response. In case a processing of a properly received response fails, the wrapped processing exception will be of ResponseProcessingException type and will contain the Response instance whose processing has failed.

Type Parameters:

T - generic response entity type.

Parameters:

name - method name.

entity - request entity, including it's full Variant information. Any variant-related HTTP headers previously set (namely Content-Type, Content-Language and Content-Encoding) will be overwritten using the entity variant information.

callback - asynchronous invocation callback.

Returns:

invocation response future.