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Revision: 1.12
Committed: Wed Sep 14 22:51:10 2005 UTC (18 years, 8 months ago) by jsr166
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.11: +8 -7 lines
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# Content
1 /*
2 * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
3 * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at
4 * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
5 */
6
7 package java.util.concurrent;
8 import java.util.concurrent.*; // for javadoc (till 6280605 is fixed)
9
10 /**
11 * A service that decouples the production of new asynchronous tasks
12 * from the consumption of the results of completed tasks. Producers
13 * <tt>submit</tt> tasks for execution. Consumers <tt>take</tt>
14 * completed tasks and process their results in the order they
15 * complete. A <tt>CompletionService</tt> can for example be used to
16 * manage asynchronous IO, in which tasks that perform reads are
17 * submitted in one part of a program or system, and then acted upon
18 * in a different part of the program when the reads complete,
19 * possibly in a different order than they were requested.
20 *
21 * <p>Typically, a <tt>CompletionService</tt> relies on a separate
22 * {@link Executor} to actually execute the tasks, in which case the
23 * <tt>CompletionService</tt> only manages an internal completion
24 * queue. The {@link ExecutorCompletionService} class provides an
25 * implementation of this approach.
26 *
27 * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions in a thread prior to
28 * submitting a task to a {@code CompletionService}
29 * <a href="package-summary.html#MemoryVisibility"><i>happen-before</i></a>
30 * actions taken by that task, which in turn <i>happen-before</i>
31 * actions following a successful return from the corresponding {@code take()}.
32 *
33 */
34 public interface CompletionService<V> {
35 /**
36 * Submits a value-returning task for execution and returns a Future
37 * representing the pending results of the task. Upon completion,
38 * this task may be taken or polled.
39 *
40 * @param task the task to submit
41 * @return a Future representing pending completion of the task
42 * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be
43 * scheduled for execution
44 * @throws NullPointerException if the task is null
45 */
46 Future<V> submit(Callable<V> task);
47
48 /**
49 * Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future
50 * representing that task. Upon completion, this task may be
51 * taken or polled.
52 *
53 * @param task the task to submit
54 * @param result the result to return upon successful completion
55 * @return a Future representing pending completion of the task,
56 * and whose <tt>get()</tt> method will return the given
57 * result value upon completion
58 * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be
59 * scheduled for execution
60 * @throws NullPointerException if the task is null
61 */
62 Future<V> submit(Runnable task, V result);
63
64 /**
65 * Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next
66 * completed task, waiting if none are yet present.
67 *
68 * @return the Future representing the next completed task
69 * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
70 */
71 Future<V> take() throws InterruptedException;
72
73
74 /**
75 * Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next
76 * completed task or <tt>null</tt> if none are present.
77 *
78 * @return the Future representing the next completed task, or
79 * <tt>null</tt> if none are present
80 */
81 Future<V> poll();
82
83 /**
84 * Retrieves and removes the Future representing the next
85 * completed task, waiting if necessary up to the specified wait
86 * time if none are yet present.
87 *
88 * @param timeout how long to wait before giving up, in units of
89 * <tt>unit</tt>
90 * @param unit a <tt>TimeUnit</tt> determining how to interpret the
91 * <tt>timeout</tt> parameter
92 * @return the Future representing the next completed task or
93 * <tt>null</tt> if the specified waiting time elapses
94 * before one is present
95 * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
96 */
97 Future<V> poll(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) throws InterruptedException;
98 }