Package uk.ac.manchester.spinnaker.utils

Class ThreadUtils

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.manchester.spinnaker.utils.ThreadUtils

public abstract class ThreadUtils
extends Object

Utilities for working with threads.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	sleep(long delay)	Recommended way of doing "quiet" sleeps.
static String	threadDump()	Produce a dump of what all threads are doing.
static boolean	waitfor(Object obj)	Wait for the given object.
static boolean	waitfor(Object obj, long timeout)	Wait for the given object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

threadDump

public static String threadDump()

Produce a dump of what all threads are doing. Useful for debugging as it means you can get a dump of threads programmatically at the time when the problem is likely to be on some thread's stack.

Returns:

The dump, as a multi-line string.

sleep

public static void sleep(long delay)

Recommended way of doing "quiet" sleeps.

Parameters:

delay - How long to sleep for, in milliseconds.

See Also:

• Stack Overflow Question: When does Java's Thread.sleep throw InterruptedException?

waitfor

public static boolean waitfor(Object obj)

Wait for the given object.

Parameters:

obj - The object to wait for

Returns:

True if the wait was interrupted, false otherwise

waitfor

public static boolean waitfor(Object obj,
 long timeout)

Wait for the given object.

Parameters:

obj - The object to wait for

timeout - The maximum time to wait, in milliseconds

Returns:

True if the wait was interrupted, false otherwise