Reducing a list of futures

Question

I have long running function that returns a future as follows:

def longRunningFunction(signs: List[String], numOfWords: Int)
    : Future[List[(String, Int)]] = Future{ /* computation */ }

I need to reduce the output of the Future as follows:

val all = (6 to 24).map(i => longRunningFunction(signs, i))
                   .reduce(_ ::: _)

But this does not seem to work. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Is this the thing you're looking for?

def longRunningFunction(signs: List[String], numOfWords: Int): Future[List[(String, Int)]] = ???

val all: IndexedSeq[Future[List[(String, Int)]]] = (6 to 24).map(i => longRunningFunction(signs, i))
val result: Future[IndexedSeq[(String, Int)]] = Future.sequence(all).map(_.flatten)

Answer 2

Future.reduce(futures)(_ ::: _)

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