Interface ScheduledExecutorService

All Superinterfaces:: AutoCloseable, Executor, ExecutorService

All Known Implementing Classes:: ForkJoinPool, ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor

public interface ScheduledExecutorService extends ExecutorService

An ExecutorService that can schedule commands to run after a given delay, or to execute periodically.

The schedule methods create tasks with various delays and return ScheduledFuture objects that can be used to cancel or check execution. When delays elapse, tasks are enabled for execution and behave in accord with other ExecutorService tasks, except that scheduleAtFixedRate and scheduleWithFixedDelay methods create and execute tasks that run periodically until cancelled.

Commands submitted using the Executor.execute(Runnable) and ExecutorService submit methods are scheduled with a requested delay of zero. Zero and negative delays (but not periods) are also allowed in schedule methods, and are treated as requests for immediate execution.

All schedule methods accept relative delays and periods as arguments, not absolute times or dates. It is a simple matter to transform an absolute time represented as a Date to the required form. For example, to schedule at a certain future date, you can use: schedule(task, date.getTime() - System.currentTimeMillis(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS). Beware however that expiration of a relative delay need not coincide with the current Date at which the task is enabled due to network time synchronization protocols, clock drift, or other factors.

The Executors class provides convenient factory methods for the ScheduledExecutorService implementations provided in this package.

Usage Example

Here is a class with a method that sets up a ScheduledExecutorService to beep every ten seconds for an hour:

import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.*;
class BeeperControl {
  private final ScheduledExecutorService scheduler =
    Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);

  public void beepForAnHour() {
    Runnable beeper = () -> System.out.println("beep");
    ScheduledFuture<?> beeperHandle =
      scheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(beeper, 10, 10, SECONDS);
    Runnable canceller = () -> beeperHandle.cancel(false);
    scheduler.schedule(canceller, 1, HOURS);
  }
}

Since:: 1.5

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ScheduledFuture<?>`	`schedule(Runnable command, long delay, TimeUnit unit)`	Submits a one-shot task that becomes enabled for execution after the given delay.
`<V> ScheduledFuture<V>`	`schedule(Callable<V> callable, long delay, TimeUnit unit)`	Submits a value-returning one-shot task that becomes enabled for execution after the given delay.
`ScheduledFuture<?>`	`scheduleAtFixedRate(Runnable command, long initialDelay, long period, TimeUnit unit)`	Submits a periodic action that becomes enabled for execution first after the given initial delay, and subsequently with the given period; that is, executions will commence after `initialDelay`, then `initialDelay + period`, then `initialDelay + 2 * period`, and so on.
`ScheduledFuture<?>`	`scheduleWithFixedDelay(Runnable command, long initialDelay, long delay, TimeUnit unit)`	Submits a periodic action that becomes enabled for execution first after the given initial delay, and subsequently with the given delay between the termination of one execution and the commencement of the next.

Methods declared in interface Executor

execute

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`execute(Runnable command)`	Executes the given command at some time in the future.

Methods declared in interface ExecutorService

awaitTermination, close, invokeAll, invokeAll, invokeAny, invokeAny, isShutdown, isTerminated, shutdown, shutdownNow, submit, submit, submit

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`awaitTermination(long timeout, TimeUnit unit)`	Blocks until all tasks have completed execution after a shutdown request, or the timeout occurs, or the current thread is interrupted, whichever happens first.
`default void`	`close()`	Initiates an orderly shutdown in which previously submitted tasks are executed, but no new tasks will be accepted.
`<T> List<Future<T>>`	`invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)`	Executes the given tasks, returning a list of Futures holding their status and results when all complete.
`<T> List<Future<T>>`	`invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks, long timeout, TimeUnit unit)`	Executes the given tasks, returning a list of Futures holding their status and results when all complete or the timeout expires, whichever happens first.
`<T> T`	`invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)`	Executes the given tasks, returning the result of one that has completed successfully (i.e., without throwing an exception), if any do.
`<T> T`	`invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks, long timeout, TimeUnit unit)`	Executes the given tasks, returning the result of one that has completed successfully (i.e., without throwing an exception), if any do before the given timeout elapses.
`boolean`	`isShutdown()`	Returns `true` if this executor has been shut down.
`boolean`	`isTerminated()`	Returns `true` if all tasks have completed following shut down.
`void`	`shutdown()`	Initiates an orderly shutdown in which previously submitted tasks are executed, but no new tasks will be accepted.
`List<Runnable>`	`shutdownNow()`	Attempts to stop all actively executing tasks, halts the processing of waiting tasks, and returns a list of the tasks that were awaiting execution.
`Future<?>`	`submit(Runnable task)`	Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future representing that task.
`<T> Future<T>`	`submit(Runnable task, T result)`	Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future representing that task.
`<T> Future<T>`	`submit(Callable<T> task)`	Submits a value-returning task for execution and returns a Future representing the pending results of the task.

Method Details

schedule

ScheduledFuture<?> schedule(Runnable command, long delay, TimeUnit unit)

Submits a one-shot task that becomes enabled for execution after the given delay.

Parameters:: command - the task to execute; delay - the time from now to delay execution; unit - the time unit of the delay parameter
Returns:: a ScheduledFuture representing pending completion of the task and whose get() method will return null upon completion
Throws:: RejectedExecutionException - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution; NullPointerException - if command or unit is null

schedule

<V> ScheduledFuture<V> schedule(Callable<V> callable, long delay, TimeUnit unit)

Submits a value-returning one-shot task that becomes enabled for execution after the given delay.

Type Parameters:: V - the type of the callable's result
Parameters:: callable - the function to execute; delay - the time from now to delay execution; unit - the time unit of the delay parameter
Returns:: a ScheduledFuture that can be used to extract result or cancel
Throws:: RejectedExecutionException - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution; NullPointerException - if callable or unit is null

scheduleAtFixedRate

ScheduledFuture<?> scheduleAtFixedRate(Runnable command, long initialDelay, long period, TimeUnit unit)

Submits a periodic action that becomes enabled for execution first after the given initial delay, and subsequently with the given period; that is, executions will commence after initialDelay, then initialDelay + period, then initialDelay + 2 * period, and so on.

The sequence of task executions continues indefinitely until one of the following exceptional completions occur:

The task is explicitly cancelled via the returned future.
The executor terminates, also resulting in task cancellation.
An execution of the task throws an exception. In this case calling get on the returned future will throw ExecutionException, holding the exception as its cause.

Subsequent executions are suppressed. Subsequent calls to isDone() on the returned future will return true.

If any execution of this task takes longer than its period, then subsequent executions may start late, but will not concurrently execute.

Parameters:: command - the task to execute; initialDelay - the time to delay first execution; period - the period between successive executions; unit - the time unit of the initialDelay and period parameters
Returns:: a ScheduledFuture representing pending completion of the series of repeated tasks. The future's get() method will never return normally, and will throw an exception upon task cancellation or abnormal termination of a task execution.
Throws:: RejectedExecutionException - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution; NullPointerException - if command or unit is null; IllegalArgumentException - if period less than or equal to zero

scheduleWithFixedDelay

ScheduledFuture<?> scheduleWithFixedDelay(Runnable command, long initialDelay, long delay, TimeUnit unit)

Submits a periodic action that becomes enabled for execution first after the given initial delay, and subsequently with the given delay between the termination of one execution and the commencement of the next.

The sequence of task executions continues indefinitely until one of the following exceptional completions occur:

The task is explicitly cancelled via the returned future.
The executor terminates, also resulting in task cancellation.
An execution of the task throws an exception. In this case calling get on the returned future will throw ExecutionException, holding the exception as its cause.

Subsequent executions are suppressed. Subsequent calls to isDone() on the returned future will return true.

Parameters:: command - the task to execute; initialDelay - the time to delay first execution; delay - the delay between the termination of one execution and the commencement of the next; unit - the time unit of the initialDelay and delay parameters
Returns:: a ScheduledFuture representing pending completion of the series of repeated tasks. The future's get() method will never return normally, and will throw an exception upon task cancellation or abnormal termination of a task execution.
Throws:: RejectedExecutionException - if the task cannot be scheduled for execution; NullPointerException - if command or unit is null; IllegalArgumentException - if delay less than or equal to zero

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