Is it possible to launch a new thread when the currently running thread exits?
The code i have written for a framework starts a thread and it locks(not a java concurrent lock) a file.
I need to process the same file,but i am not able to do so as the lock is held by the thread
launched by the framework. My requirement is to launch a new thread which processes the file
once the thread launched by the framework is completed
Thanks,
Senthil.
Use Thread.join() method
Refer Example
Refer documentation
Your basic code structure should be like his
public void run(){
//prepare
synchronized{
//Access File
}
//non-trivial statements
}
Here's an example that launches a second thread at the end of another thread:
public class TwoThreads {
public static void main(String[] args) {
class SecondThread implements Runnable {
#Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Start of second thread");
try {
Thread.sleep(2000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) { }
System.out.println("End of second thread");
}
}
class FirstThread implements Runnable {
#Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Start of first thread");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) { }
// Second thread gets launched here
new Thread(new SecondThread()).start();
System.out.println("End of first thread");
}
}
new Thread(new FirstThread()).start();
}
}
Related
I don't know how to make for a thread to run until the task is finished.
So i have this class:
public class MainTest {
public static void main(String[] args){
ThreadRunnable t1 = new ThreadRunnable();
Thread t2 = new Thread(t1);
t2.start();
System.out.println(3);
//here the next code to run
}
}
And another that try for example to add data in database:
public class ThreadRunnable implements Runnable{
public void run(){
//code to make the thread waits until the insert is done
//code for inserting data in database
}
}
So, inside method run() i want something like:
- try to insert data in database
- if connection to database is down, wait 5 seconds and try again
- if connection is ok, then insert data, and return successful message that data is added
Is this possible, and if yes, how?
Thanks!
You don’t need to wait for a thread. Just do the retries in a loop in your Runnable:
public void run() {
try {
while (true) {
try {
// Do database operations here
// Succeeded
break;
} catch (SQLException e) {
// Failed; log exception and try again.
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Couldn't save data.", e);
}
// Wait before trying again.
Thread.sleep(5000);
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Interrupted; exiting.", e);
}
}
Note: An interrupt is an explicit request for a thread to stop what it’s doing and self-terminate. The InterruptedException should not be caught inside the loop, because you want the loop to terminate in the event of an interrupt.
On the other hand, you do want the loop to keep executing in the event of an SQLException, so it should be caught inside the loop.
You can do something like that :
1) Add a waitFor function in your ThreadRunnable
2) Add synchronization via un LOCK variable
The code :
public class ThreadRunnable implements Runnable{
private boolean ended=false;
private final Object LOCK=new Object();
public void run(){
// do my stuff...
...
//at the end, notify the thread waiting for : it will wake up
synchronized(LOCK)
{
ended=true;
LOCK.notifyAll();
}
}
/**
Waits until the task is done
*/
public void waitFor()
{
synchronized(LOCK)
{
while(!ended)
{
//sleeps until notifAll is called (see run())
wait();
}
}
}
}
(in this code, you have to add the try/catch for the InterruptedException)
In your main :
public class MainTest {
public static void main(String[] args){
ThreadRunnable t1 = new ThreadRunnable();
Thread t2 = new Thread(t1);
t2.start();
t1.waitFor();
System.out.println(3);
//here the next code to run
}
}
Is there a way I can do a similar task like the android OS or java AWT thread where a task is run on a particular thread regardless of which thread of which thread the method was called from e.g. repaint().
private Thread thread;
public void startThread(){ //method which start's my thread
thread = new Thread(new Runnable(){
doSomething();
});
thread.start()
}
public void submitTask(Runnable runnable){
//run the runnable task on the thread "thread"
}
How can I achieve something like this, on a situation where I have more then one active thread
How I've dealt with this scenario before is to create a work queue and a thread which processes tasks that get added to it. So any thread can add a work item to the queue and the same thread will process it regardless of what thread added the work item.
public class MyClass {
private LinkedBlockingQueue<MyTask> myTaskProcessingQueue;
public MyClass() {
myTaskProcessingQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<MyTask>();
new MyTaskWorker().start();
}
public void processTask(MyTask myTask) {
myTaskProcessingQueue.put(myTask);
}
private class MyTaskWorker extends Thread {
#Override
public void run() {
while (true) {
try {
processMyTask(myTaskProcessingQueue.take());
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
// handle it
}
}
}
private void processMyTask(MyTask myTask) {
// do work
}
}
}
I'd like to run a thread from the main thread , but I want this thread to be executed after the main thread is finished.
How should I do it ?
Can I pass the thread a reference to the main thread and call to join() method ?
The closest would be a shutdownHook,
Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(){
...
});
But this would run will the process is still alive, once the process dies, thats it, you can't add any threads to a process that doesn't exist anymore.
You can use the Runtime.getRuntime() method for this. Here is an example:
public static void main(String[] args) {
.....
Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(new Runnable(){
public void run(){
// run when the main thread finishes.
}
}));
}
You can find more details about this in the documentation
You can artificially do this with basic thread objects as follows, although I would recommend using the other answers on shutdown hooks instead.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// parametrizes with current thread
new Deferrable(Thread.currentThread());
System.out.println("main thread");
}
static class Deferrable extends Thread {
Thread t;
Deferrable(Thread t) {
this.t = t;
// optional
// setDaemon(true);
start();
}
#Override
public void run() {
try {
// awaits termination of given Thread before commencing
t.join();
System.out.println("other thread");
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
// TODO handle
}
};
}
This will always print:
main thread
other thread
The typical synchronizer for this situation is a CountDownLatch. Have the spawned thread wait for the CountDownLatch prior to doing what it needs to, and have the main thread finish by calling CountDownLatch.countDown()
public static void main(String[] args) {
final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1); // will need only one countDown to reach 0
new Thread(() -> {
try {
latch.await(); // will wait until CountDownLatch reaches 0
// do whatever is needed
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
}
}).start();
// do stuff
// end main thread
latch.countDown(); // will make the latch reach 0, and the spawned thread will stop waiting
}
I wrote following Code :
public class ThreadDemo implements Runnable
{
private Thread t ;
private String threadName;
ThreadDemo(String threadName)
{
this.t = new Thread(this,threadName);
t.start();
}
public void run()
{
System.out.println("New thread has been started!!!" + t.getName());
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
new ThreadDemo("Thread-1");
Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
try {
t.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
new ThreadDemo("Thread-2");
}
}
So i have putted the join method on main thread . When i run it ,its execution never end.
Why it is so ? Why main thread doesn't end ? why it's running for infinite time.
The join() method waits for the thread that you call it on to finish. In your code, you are calling join() on the current thread - that is the same thread as you are calling it from. The main thread is now going to wait for itself to finish. That never happens, because it's waiting on itself...
You should not join the main thread, but the thread that you started instead.
ThreadDemo demo = new ThreadDemo("Thread-1");
try {
demo.t.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Just another perspective to this code....
This code will hang even if you do not initialize the ThreadDemo objects
within the main program.
In short all this code can be reduced to saying the following statement,
Thread.currentThread().join() will never return.
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public Thread thread = new Thread();
public void start() {
running = true;
thread.start();
}
public void run() {
while(running) {
System.out.println("test");
try {
thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
My problem is that the program will not print out "test" nor will it seem to loop despite 'running' being true. Is there a way I can continuously loop in the run method?
You haven't actually asked run() to be called. All you've done is declare a run() method unrelated to the Thread.
Put your run() method in a Runnable and pass that to the Thread.
public Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
while (running) {
System.out.println("test");
try {
thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
});
The problem appears to be that you aren't running the run method that you think you're running in the thread.
First, you've created a Thread called thread. In your class's start method, you set running to true and call thread.start(). But that just calls Thread's run() method, which does nothing.
public void run()
If this thread was constructed using a separate
Runnable run object, then that Runnable object's run method is called;
otherwise, this method does nothing and returns.
You aren't calling your own run method.
You have created a run method. I can't see your class definition here, but I'm assuming that your class implements Runnable. You need to send an instance of your class as an argument to the Thread, by using the Thread constructor that takes a Runnable. Then the Thread will know to run your Runnable's run() method.
Well you need to call start() to start the thread. Otherwise neither running will be true
nor thread.start() get executed. Well i can guess you were intended to do something like this:
class MyTask implements Runnable
{
boolean running = false;
public void start() {
running = true;
new Thread(this).start();
}
public void run() {
while(running) {
System.out.println("test");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
// you were doing thread.sleep()! sleep is a static function
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new MyTask().start();
}
}