/*
* Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
* Expert Group and released to the public domain. Use, modify, and
* redistribute this code in any way without acknowledgement.
*/
package java.util.concurrent;
/**
* Something, usually a task, that can be cancelled. Cancellation is
* performed by the cancel method. Additional methods are
* provided to determine if the task completed normally or was
* cancelled.
*
* @since 1.5
*
* @spec JSR-166
* @revised $Date: 2003/06/24 14:34:47 $
* @editor $Author: dl $
* @see FutureTask
* @see Executor
* @author Doug Lea
*/
public interface Cancellable {
/**
* Attempt to cancel execution of this task. This attempt will
* fail if the task has already completed, already been cancelled,
* or could not be cancelled for some other reason. If successful,
* and this task has not started when cancel is called,
* this task will never run. If the task has already started,
* then the interruptIfRunning parameter determines
* whether the thread executing this task should be interrupted in
* an attempt to stop the task.
*
* @param mayInterruptIfRunning true if the thread executing this
* task should be interrupted; otherwise, in-progress tasks are allowed
* to complete
* @return false if the task could not be cancelled,
* typically because is has already completed normally;
* true otherwise
*/
boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning);
/**
* Returns true if this task was cancelled before it completed
* normally.
*
* @return true if task was cancelled before it completed
*/
boolean isCancelled();
/**
* Returns true if this task ran to completion or was cancelled.
*
* @return true if task completed normally or was cancelled
*/
boolean isDone();
}