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Revision: 1.4
Committed: Tue Jun 24 14:34:48 2003 UTC (20 years, 11 months ago) by dl
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: JSR166_PRELIMINARY_TEST_RELEASE_2
Changes since 1.3: +10 -5 lines
Log Message:
Added missing javadoc tags; minor reformatting

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# Content
1 /*
2 * @(#)Future.java
3 */
4
5 package java.util.concurrent;
6
7 /**
8 * A <tt>Future</tt> represents the result of an asynchronous computation.
9 * Methods are provided to check if the computation is complete,
10 * to wait for its completion, and to retrieve the result of the
11 * computation. The result can only be retrieved when the computation
12 * has completed. The <tt>get</tt> method will block until the computation
13 * has completed. Once the computation has completed, the result cannot
14 * be changed, nor can the computation be restarted or cancelled.
15 *
16 * <p>
17 * <b>Sample Usage</b> <p>
18 * <pre>
19 * class Image { ... };
20 * class ImageRenderer { Image render(byte[] raw); }
21 * class App {
22 * Executor executor = ...
23 * ImageRenderer renderer = ...
24 * void display(final byte[] rawimage) throws InterruptedException {
25 * Future futureImage =
26 * new FutureTask(new Callable() {
27 * public Object call() {
28 * return renderer.render(rawImage);
29 * }});
30 * executor.execute(futureImage);
31 * drawBorders(); // do other things while executing
32 * drawCaption();
33 * try {
34 * drawImage((Image)(futureImage.get())); // use future
35 * }
36 * catch (ExecutionException ex) { cleanup(); return; }
37 * }
38 * }
39 * </pre>
40 *
41 * @since 1.5
42 * @see FutureTask
43 * @see Executor
44 *
45 * @spec JSR-166
46 * @revised $Date: 2003/05/29 13:21:28 $
47 * @editor $Author: dl $
48 * @author Doug Lea
49 */
50 public interface Future<V> {
51
52 /**
53 * Returns <tt>true</tt> if the underlying task has completed.
54 *
55 * @fixme relation to isDone in Cancellable?
56 *
57 * @return <tt>true</tt> if underlying task has completed
58 */
59 boolean isDone();
60
61 /**
62 * Waits if necessary for computation to complete, and then
63 * retrieves its result.
64 *
65 * @return computed result
66 * @throws CancellationException here???
67 * @throws ExecutionException if underlying computation threw an
68 * exception
69 * @throws InterruptedException if current thread was interrupted
70 * while waiting
71 */
72 V get() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException;
73
74 /**
75 * Waits if necessary for at most the given time for the computation
76 * to complete, and then retrieves its result.
77 *
78 * @param timeout the maximum time to wait
79 * @param granularity the time unit of the timeout argument
80 * @return computed result
81 * @throws ExecutionException if underlying computation threw an
82 * exception
83 * @throws InterruptedException if current thread was interrupted
84 * while waiting
85 * @throws TimeoutException if the wait timed out
86 */
87 V get(long timeout, TimeUnit granularity)
88 throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException;
89 }
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