JavaTM 2 Platform Std. Ed. v1.6.0
java.util.concurrent
Interface Future<V>
- Type Parameters:
V - The result type returned by this Future's get method
- All Known Subinterfaces:
- Response<T>, RunnableFuture<V>, RunnableScheduledFuture<V>, ScheduledFuture<V>
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- FutureTask, SwingWorker
public interface Future<V>
A Future represents the result of an asynchronous
computation. Methods are provided to check if the computation is
complete, to wait for its completion, and to retrieve the result of
the computation. The result can only be retrieved using method
get when the computation has completed, blocking if
necessary until it is ready. Cancellation is performed by the
cancel method. Additional methods are provided to
determine if the task completed normally or was cancelled. Once a
computation has completed, the computation cannot be cancelled.
If you would like to use a Future for the sake
of cancellability but not provide a usable result, you can
declare types of the form Future<?> and
return null as a result of the underlying task.
Sample Usage (Note that the following classes are all
made-up.)
interface ArchiveSearcher { String search(String target); }
class App {
ExecutorService executor = ...
ArchiveSearcher searcher = ...
void showSearch(final String target)
throws InterruptedException {
Future<String> future
= executor.submit(new Callable<String>() {
public String call() {
return searcher.search(target);
}});
displayOtherThings(); // do other things while searching
try {
displayText(future.get()); // use future
} catch (ExecutionException ex) { cleanup(); return; }
}
}
The FutureTask class is an implementation of Future that
implements Runnable, and so may be executed by an Executor.
For example, the above construction with submit could be replaced by:
FutureTask<String> future =
new FutureTask<String>(new Callable<String>() {
public String call() {
return searcher.search(target);
}});
executor.execute(future);
Memory consistency effects: Actions taken by the asynchronous computation
happen-before
actions following the corresponding Future.get() in another thread.
- Since:
- 1.5
- See Also:
FutureTask ,
Executor
Method Summary |
boolean |
cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning)
Attempts to cancel execution of this task. |
V |
get()
Waits if necessary for the computation to complete, and then
retrieves its result. |
V |
get(long timeout,
TimeUnit unit)
Waits if necessary for at most the given time for the computation
to complete, and then retrieves its result, if available. |
boolean |
isCancelled()
Returns true if this task was cancelled before it completed
normally. |
boolean |
isDone()
Returns true if this task completed. |
cancel
boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning)
- Attempts to cancel execution of this task. This attempt will
fail if the task has already completed, has already been cancelled,
or could not be cancelled for some other reason. If successful,
and this task has not started when cancel is called,
this task should never run. If the task has already started,
then the mayInterruptIfRunning parameter determines
whether the thread executing this task should be interrupted in
an attempt to stop the task.
After this method returns, subsequent calls to isDone() will
always return true. Subsequent calls to isCancelled()
will always return true if this method returned true.
- Parameters:
mayInterruptIfRunning - true if the thread executing this
task should be interrupted; otherwise, in-progress tasks are allowed
to complete
- Returns:
- false if the task could not be cancelled,
typically because it has already completed normally;
true otherwise
isCancelled
boolean isCancelled()
- Returns true if this task was cancelled before it completed
normally.
- Returns:
- true if this task was cancelled before it completed
isDone
boolean isDone()
- Returns true if this task completed.
Completion may be due to normal termination, an exception, or
cancellation -- in all of these cases, this method will return
true.
- Returns:
- true if this task completed
get
V get()
throws InterruptedException,
ExecutionException
- Waits if necessary for the computation to complete, and then
retrieves its result.
- Returns:
- the computed result
- Throws:
CancellationException - if the computation was cancelled
ExecutionException - if the computation threw an
exception
InterruptedException - if the current thread was interrupted
while waiting
get
V get(long timeout,
TimeUnit unit)
throws InterruptedException,
ExecutionException,
TimeoutException
- Waits if necessary for at most the given time for the computation
to complete, and then retrieves its result, if available.
- Parameters:
timeout - the maximum time to waitunit - the time unit of the timeout argument
- Returns:
- the computed result
- Throws:
CancellationException - if the computation was cancelled
ExecutionException - if the computation threw an
exception
InterruptedException - if the current thread was interrupted
while waiting
TimeoutException - if the wait timed out
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