{"id":7763,"date":"2013-07-17T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:29:55","slug":"timeout-a-java-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=7763","title":{"rendered":"Timeout a Java Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you run a long lasting method, you may want to set a timeout for the operation. In this example, a long lasting method called <em>someMethod()<\/em> is being wrapped within another method called <em>someMethodWithTimeout()<\/em> which will timeout in 10 seconds if someMethod() did not finish work for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"java\">\r\npublic void someMethod() {\r\n    \/\/ Do some long lasting work...\r\n}\r\n\r\npublic void someMethodWithTimeout() {\r\n\tExecutorService exe = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1);\r\n\tFuture<?> f = exe.submit(new Runnable() {\r\n\r\n\t\t@Override\r\n\t\tpublic void run() {\r\n\t\t\tsomeMethod();\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t});\r\n\r\n\ttry {\r\n\t\tf.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); \/\/ Timeout in 10 seconds.\r\n\t}catch(Exception e){\r\n\t\tf.cancel(true); \/\/ Stop the work\r\n\t\tString err = \"Method timed out.\";\r\n\t\tlogger.warning(err); \/\/ Log time out\r\n                \/\/ Some cleanup work\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you run a long lasting method, you may want to set a timeout for the operation. In this example, a long lasting method called someMethod() is being wrapped within another method called someMethodWithTimeout() which will timeout in 10 seconds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=7763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[559,386,385],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","tag-java","tag-thread","tag-timeout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cRUO-21d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}