Returns the result of applying this Continuation to task.

To propagate failure from the completed Task call Task.getResult() and allow the RuntimeExecutionException to propagate. The RuntimeExecutionException will be unwrapped such that the Task returned by Task.continueWith(Continuation) or Task.continueWithTask(Continuation) fails with the original exception.

To suppress specific failures call Task.getResult(Class) and catch the exception types of interest:

 task.continueWith(new Continuation<String, String>() {
     @Override
     public String then(Task<String> task) {
         try {
             return task.getResult(IOException.class);
         } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
             return "Not found";
         } catch (IOException e) {
             return "Read failed";
         }
     }
 }
 

To suppress all failures guard any calls to Task.getResult() with Task.isSuccessful():

 task.continueWith(new Continuation<String, String>() {
     @Override
     public String then(Task<String> task) {
         if (task.isSuccessful()) {
             return task.getResult();
         } else {
             return DEFAULT_VALUE;
         }
     }
 }