de.esprit.common.concurrent

Class CancellableThread

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Thread

de.esprit.common.concurrent.CancellableThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cancellable, java.lang.Runnable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractOneShotTimer

public class CancellableThread
extends java.lang.Thread
implements Cancellable

This is a cancellable thread which manages a cancel flag internally. In order to work correctly the run() implementation must use the isCancelled() method in order to check if the thread has been cancelled.

Author:

Rainer Buesch

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CancellableThread()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	cancel() Sets the cancel flag within this thread
void	checkCancelled()
java.lang.String	toString()
ToString	toString(ToString s)
boolean	wasCancelled() Checks whether the cancel flag has been set

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, run, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CancellableThread

public CancellableThread()

Method Detail

checkCancelled

public void checkCancelled()

cancel

public void cancel()

Sets the cancel flag within this thread

Specified by:

cancel in interface Cancellable

wasCancelled

public boolean wasCancelled()

Checks whether the cancel flag has been set

Specified by:

wasCancelled in interface Cancellable

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Thread

toString

public ToString toString(ToString s)