io.netty.util

Interface Timer

All Known Implementing Classes:

HashedWheelTimer

public interface Timer

Schedules TimerTasks for one-time future execution in a background thread.

Method Summary

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