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ArC: document the @ObservesAsync pitfall with reactive programming
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Ladicek committed Oct 14, 2024
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=== Asynchronous Observers

CDI asynchronous observers are not aware of reactive programming and are not meant to be used as part of reactive pipelines.
The observer methods are meant to be synchronous, they are just offloaded to a thread pool.

The `Event.fireAsync()` method returns a `CompletionStage` that completes when all observers are notified.
If all observers were notified successfully, the `CompletionStage` completes with the event payload.
If some observers have thrown an exception, the `CompletionStage` completes exceptionally with a `CompletionException`.

The return type of the observer _does not matter_.
The return value of the observer is _ignored_.

You may declare an observer method that has a return type of `CompletionStage<>` or `Uni<>`, but neither the return type nor the actual return value affect the result of `Event.fireAsync()`.
Further, if the observer declares a return type of `Uni<>`, the returned `Uni` will not be subscribed to, so it is quite possible that part of the observer logic will not even execute.

Therefore, it is recommended that observer methods are always declared `void`.

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