abstract class AbstractExecutorService : ExecutorService

Provides default implementations of ExecutorService execution methods. This class implements the submit, invokeAny and invokeAll methods using a RunnableFuture returned by newTaskFor, which defaults to the FutureTask class provided in this package. For example, the implementation of submit(Runnable) creates an associated RunnableFuture that is executed and returned. Subclasses may override the newTaskFor methods to return RunnableFuture implementations other than FutureTask.

Extension example. Here is a sketch of a class that customizes ThreadPoolExecutor to use a CustomTask class instead of the default FutureTask:

<code>public class CustomThreadPoolExecutor extends ThreadPoolExecutor {
 
    static class CustomTask&lt;V&gt; implements RunnableFuture&lt;V&gt; { ... }
 
    protected &lt;V&gt; RunnableFuture&lt;V&gt; newTaskFor(Callable&lt;V&gt; c) {
        return new CustomTask&lt;V&gt;(c);
    }
    protected &lt;V&gt; RunnableFuture&lt;V&gt; newTaskFor(Runnable r, V v) {
        return new CustomTask&lt;V&gt;(r, v);
    }
    // ... add constructors, etc.
  }</code>

Summary

Public constructors

Constructor for subclasses to call.

Public methods
open MutableList<Future<T>!>!
open MutableList<Future<T>!>!

invokeAll(tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!, timeout: Long, unit: TimeUnit!)

open T
open T

invokeAny(tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!, timeout: Long, unit: TimeUnit!)

open Future<*>!

submit(task: Runnable!)

open Future<T>!

submit(task: Runnable!, result: T)

open Future<T>!

submit(task: Callable<T>!)

Protected methods
open RunnableFuture<T>!

newTaskFor(runnable: Runnable!, value: T)

Returns a RunnableFuture for the given runnable and default value.

open RunnableFuture<T>!

newTaskFor(callable: Callable<T>!)

Returns a RunnableFuture for the given callable task.

Inherited functions

From class ExecutorService

Boolean awaitTermination(timeout: Long, unit: TimeUnit!)

Blocks until all tasks have completed execution after a shutdown request, or the timeout occurs, or the current thread is interrupted, whichever happens first.

Unit close()

Initiates an orderly shutdown in which previously submitted tasks are executed, but no new tasks will be accepted. This method waits until all tasks have completed execution and the executor has terminated.

If interrupted while waiting, this method stops all executing tasks as if by invoking shutdownNow(). It then continues to wait until all actively executing tasks have completed. Tasks that were awaiting execution are not executed. The interrupt status will be re-asserted before this method returns.

If already terminated, invoking this method has no effect.

Boolean isShutdown()

Returns true if this executor has been shut down.

Boolean isTerminated()

Returns true if all tasks have completed following shut down. Note that isTerminated is never true unless either shutdown or shutdownNow was called first.

Unit shutdown()

Initiates an orderly shutdown in which previously submitted tasks are executed, but no new tasks will be accepted. Invocation has no additional effect if already shut down.

This method does not wait for previously submitted tasks to complete execution. Use awaitTermination to do that.

MutableList<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.

This method does not wait for actively executing tasks to terminate. Use awaitTermination to do that.

There are no guarantees beyond best-effort attempts to stop processing actively executing tasks. For example, typical implementations will cancel via Thread.interrupt, so any task that fails to respond to interrupts may never terminate.

From class Executor

Unit execute(command: Runnable!)

Executes the given command at some time in the future. The command may execute in a new thread, in a pooled thread, or in the calling thread, at the discretion of the Executor implementation.

Public constructors

AbstractExecutorService

AbstractExecutorService()

Constructor for subclasses to call.

Public methods

invokeAll

open fun <T : Any!> invokeAll(tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!): MutableList<Future<T>!>!
Parameters
<T> the type of the values returned from the tasks
tasks MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!: the collection of tasks
Return
MutableList<Future<T>!>! a list of Futures representing the tasks, in the same sequential order as produced by the iterator for the given task list, each of which has completed
Exceptions
java.lang.InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting, in which case unfinished tasks are cancelled
java.lang.NullPointerException if tasks or any of its elements are null
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if any task cannot be scheduled for execution

invokeAll

open fun <T : Any!> invokeAll(
    tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!,
    timeout: Long,
    unit: TimeUnit!
): MutableList<Future<T>!>!
Parameters
<T> the type of the values returned from the tasks
tasks MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!: the collection of tasks
timeout Long: the maximum time to wait
unit TimeUnit!: the time unit of the timeout argument
Return
MutableList<Future<T>!>! a list of Futures representing the tasks, in the same sequential order as produced by the iterator for the given task list. If the operation did not time out, each task will have completed. If it did time out, some of these tasks will not have completed.
Exceptions
java.lang.InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting, in which case unfinished tasks are cancelled
java.lang.NullPointerException if tasks, any of its elements, or unit are null
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if any task cannot be scheduled for execution

invokeAny

open fun <T : Any!> invokeAny(tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!): T
Parameters
<T> the type of the values returned from the tasks
tasks MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!: the collection of tasks
Return
T the result returned by one of the tasks
Exceptions
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if tasks is empty
java.lang.InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
java.lang.NullPointerException if tasks or any element task subject to execution is null
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException if no task successfully completes
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if tasks cannot be scheduled for execution

invokeAny

open fun <T : Any!> invokeAny(
    tasks: MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!,
    timeout: Long,
    unit: TimeUnit!
): T
Parameters
<T> the type of the values returned from the tasks
tasks MutableCollection<out Callable<T>!>!: the collection of tasks
timeout Long: the maximum time to wait
unit TimeUnit!: the time unit of the timeout argument
Return
T the result returned by one of the tasks
Exceptions
java.lang.InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
java.lang.NullPointerException if tasks, or unit, or any element task subject to execution is null
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException if no task successfully completes
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if tasks cannot be scheduled for execution
java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException if the given timeout elapses before any task successfully completes

submit

open fun submit(task: Runnable!): Future<*>!
Parameters
task Runnable!: the task to submit
Return
Future<*>! a Future representing pending completion of the task
Exceptions
java.lang.NullPointerException if the task is null
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be scheduled for execution

submit

open fun <T : Any!> submit(
    task: Runnable!,
    result: T
): Future<T>!
Parameters
<T> the type of the result
task Runnable!: the task to submit
result T: the result to return
Return
Future<T>! a Future representing pending completion of the task
Exceptions
java.lang.NullPointerException if the task is null
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be scheduled for execution

submit

open fun <T : Any!> submit(task: Callable<T>!): Future<T>!
Parameters
<T> the type of the task's result
task Callable<T>!: the task to submit
Return
Future<T>! a Future representing pending completion of the task
Exceptions
java.lang.NullPointerException if the task is null
java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be scheduled for execution

Protected methods

newTaskFor

protected open fun <T : Any!> newTaskFor(
    runnable: Runnable!,
    value: T
): RunnableFuture<T>!

Returns a RunnableFuture for the given runnable and default value.

Parameters
<T> the type of the given value
runnable Runnable!: the runnable task being wrapped
value T: the default value for the returned future
Return
RunnableFuture<T>! a RunnableFuture which, when run, will run the underlying runnable and which, as a Future, will yield the given value as its result and provide for cancellation of the underlying task

newTaskFor

protected open fun <T : Any!> newTaskFor(callable: Callable<T>!): RunnableFuture<T>!

Returns a RunnableFuture for the given callable task.

Parameters
<T> the type of the callable's result
callable Callable<T>!: the callable task being wrapped
Return
RunnableFuture<T>! a RunnableFuture which, when run, will call the underlying callable and which, as a Future, will yield the callable's result as its result and provide for cancellation of the underlying task

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