mozilla-services/android-sync — comment on commit fea9469130a7fc44ea71d7a2a377c2823359f822
File: src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/stage/SyncClientsEngineStage.java line 69
By rnewman:

> The cluster URL fetching would use `.getBlocking`. As would meta/global?

Whenever you want to just block until it's done.

> IIRC, the actual `.get` method is /fake/ asynchronous.

Yup. The API contract is async to allow us to switch to a real non-blocking HTTP implementation (or SPDY, or…) without touching a lot of code.

Not my first rodeo :D