# History, Design and Future { #history-design-and-future }

Some time ago, <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/issues/3#issuecomment-454956920" class="external-link" target="_blank">a **FastAPI** user asked</a>:

> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives { #alternatives }

    assertFalse(future.isCancelled());

    ExecutorService executor = newSingleThreadExecutor();

    try {
      Future<Boolean> getResult = executor.submit(() -> future.get());

      // Release the future value.
      latch.countDown();

      assertTrue(getResult.get(10, SECONDS));
    } finally {
      executor.shutdownNow();
    }

    assertTrue(future.isDone());

    InterruptibleFuture future = new InterruptibleFuture();
    assertTrue(future.cancel(false));
    assertTrue(future.isCancelled());
    assertTrue(future.isDone());
    assertFalse(future.wasInterrupted());
    assertFalse(future.interruptTaskWasCalled);
    CancellationException e = assertThrows(CancellationException.class, () -> future.get());
    assertThat(e).hasCauseThat().isNull();
  }

    assertTrue(future.isDone());
    assertTrue(future.isCancelled());

    assertThrows(CancellationException.class, () -> future.get());
  }

  public void testFailedFuture(@Nullable String message) throws InterruptedException {
    assertTrue(future.isDone());
    assertFalse(future.isCancelled());

    assertTrue(latch.await(5, SECONDS));
    assertTrue(future.isDone());
    assertFalse(future.isCancelled());

  }

  @Override
  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> Future<T> submit(Callable<T> task) {
    return delegate.submit(wrapTask(checkNotNull(task)));
  }

  @Override
  public final Future<?> submit(Runnable task) {
    return delegate.submit(wrapTask(task));
  }

  @Override
  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> Future<T> submit(
      Runnable task, @ParametricNullness T result) {

 *       Future} is "completed" even if it is cancelled while its underlying work continues on a
 *       thread, an RPC, etc. The {@code Future} is also "completed" if it fails "early" -- for
 *       example, if the deadline expires on a {@code Future} returned from {@link
 *       Futures#withTimeout} while the {@code Future} it wraps continues its underlying work. So

    SettableFuture<@Nullable Void> future = SettableFuture.create();
    Object unused =
        new Object() {
          @SuppressWarnings({"removal", "Finalize"}) // b/260137033
          @Override
          protected void finalize() {
            future.set(null);
          }
        };
    unused = null; // Hint to the JIT that unused is unreachable
    GcFinalization.awaitDone(future);
    assertTrue(future.isDone());

  public static <V extends @Nullable Object> V getUninterruptibly(
      Future<V> future, Duration timeout) throws ExecutionException, TimeoutException {
    return getUninterruptibly(future, toNanosSaturated(timeout), TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS);
  }

  /**
   * Invokes {@code future.}{@link Future#get(long, TimeUnit) get(timeout, unit)} uninterruptibly.
   *
   * <p>Similar methods:
   *
   * <ul>

  }

  /**
   * Returns a new {@code Future} whose result is asynchronously derived from the result of this
   * {@code Future}. If the input {@code Future} fails, the returned {@code Future} fails with the
   * same exception (and the function is not invoked).
   *
   * <p>More precisely, the returned {@code Future} takes its result from a {@code Future} produced

    }

    @Override
    public <T> Future<T> submit(Callable<T> task) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public Future<?> submit(Runnable task) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> Future<T> submit(Runnable task, T result) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }