All Known Implementing Classes:

HashedWheelTimer

public interface Timer

• Method Summary

  All Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method and Description
  Timeout	newTimeout (TimerTask task, long delay, TimeUnit unit) Schedules the specified TimerTask for one-time execution after the specified delay.
  Set<Timeout>	stop () Releases all resources acquired by this Timer and cancels all tasks which were scheduled but not executed yet.

• Method Detail

  • newTimeout

    Timeout newTimeout(TimerTask task,
     long delay,
     TimeUnit unit)

    Schedules the specified TimerTask for one-time execution after the specified delay.

    Returns:

    a handle which is associated with the specified task

    Throws:

    IllegalStateException - if this timer has been stopped already

    RejectedExecutionException - if the pending timeouts are too many and creating new timeout can cause instability in the system.

  • stop

    Set<Timeout> stop()

    Releases all resources acquired by this Timer and cancels all tasks which were scheduled but not executed yet.

    Returns:

    the handles associated with the tasks which were canceled by this method