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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.List;
9 import java.util.Collection;
10 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
11 import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;
12 
13 /**
14  * An {@link Executor} that provides methods to manage termination and
15  * methods that can produce a {@link Future} for tracking progress of
16  * one or more asynchronous tasks.
17  *
18  * <p> An <tt>ExecutorService</tt> can be shut down, which will cause
19  * it to reject new tasks.  Two different methods are provided for
20  * shutting down an <tt>ExecutorService</tt>. The {@link #shutdown}
21  * method will allow previously submitted tasks to execute before
22  * terminating, while the {@link #shutdownNow} method prevents waiting
23  * tasks from starting and attempts to stop currently executing tasks.
24  * Upon termination, an executor has no tasks actively executing, no
25  * tasks awaiting execution, and no new tasks can be submitted.  An
26  * unused <tt>ExecutorService</tt> should be shut down to allow
27  * reclamation of its resources.
28  *
29  * <p> Method <tt>submit</tt> extends base method {@link
30  * Executor#execute} by creating and returning a {@link Future} that
31  * can be used to cancel execution and/or wait for completion.
32  * Methods <tt>invokeAny</tt> and <tt>invokeAll</tt> perform the most
33  * commonly useful forms of bulk execution, executing a collection of
34  * tasks and then waiting for at least one, or all, to
35  * complete. (Class {@link ExecutorCompletionService} can be used to
36  * write customized variants of these methods.)
37  *
38  * <p>The {@link Executors} class provides factory methods for the
39  * executor services provided in this package.
40  *
41  * <h3>Usage Examples</h3>
42  *
43  * Here is a sketch of a network service in which threads in a thread
44  * pool service incoming requests. It uses the preconfigured {@link
45  * Executors#newFixedThreadPool} factory method:
46  *
47  * <pre>
48  * class NetworkService implements Runnable {
49  *   private final ServerSocket serverSocket;
50  *   private final ExecutorService pool;
51  *
52  *   public NetworkService(int port, int poolSize)
53  *       throws IOException {
54  *     serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port);
55  *     pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(poolSize);
56  *   }
57  *
58  *   public void run() { // run the service
59  *     try {
60  *       for (;;) {
61  *         pool.execute(new Handler(serverSocket.accept()));
62  *       }
63  *     } catch (IOException ex) {
64  *       pool.shutdown();
65  *     }
66  *   }
67  * }
68  *
69  * class Handler implements Runnable {
70  *   private final Socket socket;
71  *   Handler(Socket socket) { this.socket = socket; }
72  *   public void run() {
73  *     // read and service request on socket
74  *   }
75  * }
76  * </pre>
77  *
78  * The following method shuts down an <tt>ExecutorService</tt> in two phases,
79  * first by calling <tt>shutdown</tt> to reject incoming tasks, and then
80  * calling <tt>shutdownNow</tt>, if necessary, to cancel any lingering tasks:
81  *
82  * <pre>
83  * void shutdownAndAwaitTermination(ExecutorService pool) {
84  *   pool.shutdown(); // Disable new tasks from being submitted
85  *   try {
86  *     // Wait a while for existing tasks to terminate
87  *     if (!pool.awaitTermination(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
88  *       pool.shutdownNow(); // Cancel currently executing tasks
89  *       // Wait a while for tasks to respond to being cancelled
90  *       if (!pool.awaitTermination(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS))
91  *           System.err.println("Pool did not terminate");
92  *     }
93  *   } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
94  *     // (Re-)Cancel if current thread also interrupted
95  *     pool.shutdownNow();
96  *     // Preserve interrupt status
97  *     Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
98  *   }
99  * }
100  * </pre>
101  *
102  * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions in a thread prior to the
103  * submission of a {@code Runnable} or {@code Callable} task to an
104  * {@code ExecutorService}
105  * <a href="package-summary.html#MemoryVisibility"><i>happen-before</i></a>
106  * any actions taken by that task, which in turn <i>happen-before</i> the
107  * result is retrieved via {@code Future.get()}.
108  *
109  * @since 1.5
110  * @author Doug Lea
111  */
112 public interface ExecutorService extends Executor {
113 
114     /**
115      * Initiates an orderly shutdown in which previously submitted
116      * tasks are executed, but no new tasks will be accepted.
117      * Invocation has no additional effect if already shut down.
118      *
119      * <p>This method does not wait for previously submitted tasks to
120      * complete execution.  Use {@link #awaitTermination awaitTermination}
121      * to do that.
122      */
shutdown()123     void shutdown();
124 
125     /**
126      * Attempts to stop all actively executing tasks, halts the
127      * processing of waiting tasks, and returns a list of the tasks
128      * that were awaiting execution.
129      *
130      * <p>This method does not wait for actively executing tasks to
131      * terminate.  Use {@link #awaitTermination awaitTermination} to
132      * do that.
133      *
134      * <p>There are no guarantees beyond best-effort attempts to stop
135      * processing actively executing tasks.  For example, typical
136      * implementations will cancel via {@link Thread#interrupt}, so any
137      * task that fails to respond to interrupts may never terminate.
138      *
139      * @return list of tasks that never commenced execution
140      */
shutdownNow()141     List<Runnable> shutdownNow();
142 
143     /**
144      * Returns <tt>true</tt> if this executor has been shut down.
145      *
146      * @return <tt>true</tt> if this executor has been shut down
147      */
isShutdown()148     boolean isShutdown();
149 
150     /**
151      * Returns <tt>true</tt> if all tasks have completed following shut down.
152      * Note that <tt>isTerminated</tt> is never <tt>true</tt> unless
153      * either <tt>shutdown</tt> or <tt>shutdownNow</tt> was called first.
154      *
155      * @return <tt>true</tt> if all tasks have completed following shut down
156      */
isTerminated()157     boolean isTerminated();
158 
159     /**
160      * Blocks until all tasks have completed execution after a shutdown
161      * request, or the timeout occurs, or the current thread is
162      * interrupted, whichever happens first.
163      *
164      * @param timeout the maximum time to wait
165      * @param unit the time unit of the timeout argument
166      * @return <tt>true</tt> if this executor terminated and
167      *         <tt>false</tt> if the timeout elapsed before termination
168      * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
169      */
awaitTermination(long timeout, TimeUnit unit)170     boolean awaitTermination(long timeout, TimeUnit unit)
171         throws InterruptedException;
172 
173 
174     /**
175      * Submits a value-returning task for execution and returns a
176      * Future representing the pending results of the task. The
177      * Future's <tt>get</tt> method will return the task's result upon
178      * successful completion.
179      *
180      * <p>
181      * If you would like to immediately block waiting
182      * for a task, you can use constructions of the form
183      * <tt>result = exec.submit(aCallable).get();</tt>
184      *
185      * <p> Note: The {@link Executors} class includes a set of methods
186      * that can convert some other common closure-like objects,
187      * for example, {@link java.security.PrivilegedAction} to
188      * {@link Callable} form so they can be submitted.
189      *
190      * @param task the task to submit
191      * @return a Future representing pending completion of the task
192      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be
193      *         scheduled for execution
194      * @throws NullPointerException if the task is null
195      */
submit(Callable<T> task)196     <T> Future<T> submit(Callable<T> task);
197 
198     /**
199      * Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future
200      * representing that task. The Future's <tt>get</tt> method will
201      * return the given result upon successful completion.
202      *
203      * @param task the task to submit
204      * @param result the result to return
205      * @return a Future representing pending completion of the task
206      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be
207      *         scheduled for execution
208      * @throws NullPointerException if the task is null
209      */
submit(Runnable task, T result)210     <T> Future<T> submit(Runnable task, T result);
211 
212     /**
213      * Submits a Runnable task for execution and returns a Future
214      * representing that task. The Future's <tt>get</tt> method will
215      * return <tt>null</tt> upon <em>successful</em> completion.
216      *
217      * @param task the task to submit
218      * @return a Future representing pending completion of the task
219      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the task cannot be
220      *         scheduled for execution
221      * @throws NullPointerException if the task is null
222      */
submit(Runnable task)223     Future<?> submit(Runnable task);
224 
225     /**
226      * Executes the given tasks, returning a list of Futures holding
227      * their status and results when all complete.
228      * {@link Future#isDone} is <tt>true</tt> for each
229      * element of the returned list.
230      * Note that a <em>completed</em> task could have
231      * terminated either normally or by throwing an exception.
232      * The results of this method are undefined if the given
233      * collection is modified while this operation is in progress.
234      *
235      * @param tasks the collection of tasks
236      * @return A list of Futures representing the tasks, in the same
237      *         sequential order as produced by the iterator for the
238      *         given task list, each of which has completed.
239      * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting, in
240      *         which case unfinished tasks are cancelled.
241      * @throws NullPointerException if tasks or any of its elements are <tt>null</tt>
242      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if any task cannot be
243      *         scheduled for execution
244      */
245 
invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)246     <T> List<Future<T>> invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)
247         throws InterruptedException;
248 
249     /**
250      * Executes the given tasks, returning a list of Futures holding
251      * their status and results
252      * when all complete or the timeout expires, whichever happens first.
253      * {@link Future#isDone} is <tt>true</tt> for each
254      * element of the returned list.
255      * Upon return, tasks that have not completed are cancelled.
256      * Note that a <em>completed</em> task could have
257      * terminated either normally or by throwing an exception.
258      * The results of this method are undefined if the given
259      * collection is modified while this operation is in progress.
260      *
261      * @param tasks the collection of tasks
262      * @param timeout the maximum time to wait
263      * @param unit the time unit of the timeout argument
264      * @return a list of Futures representing the tasks, in the same
265      *         sequential order as produced by the iterator for the
266      *         given task list. If the operation did not time out,
267      *         each task will have completed. If it did time out, some
268      *         of these tasks will not have completed.
269      * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting, in
270      *         which case unfinished tasks are cancelled
271      * @throws NullPointerException if tasks, any of its elements, or
272      *         unit are <tt>null</tt>
273      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if any task cannot be scheduled
274      *         for execution
275      */
invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks, long timeout, TimeUnit unit)276     <T> List<Future<T>> invokeAll(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks,
277                                   long timeout, TimeUnit unit)
278         throws InterruptedException;
279 
280     /**
281      * Executes the given tasks, returning the result
282      * of one that has completed successfully (i.e., without throwing
283      * an exception), if any do. Upon normal or exceptional return,
284      * tasks that have not completed are cancelled.
285      * The results of this method are undefined if the given
286      * collection is modified while this operation is in progress.
287      *
288      * @param tasks the collection of tasks
289      * @return the result returned by one of the tasks
290      * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
291      * @throws NullPointerException if tasks or any element task
292      *         subject to execution is <tt>null</tt>
293      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if tasks is empty
294      * @throws ExecutionException if no task successfully completes
295      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if tasks cannot be scheduled
296      *         for execution
297      */
invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)298     <T> T invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks)
299         throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException;
300 
301     /**
302      * Executes the given tasks, returning the result
303      * of one that has completed successfully (i.e., without throwing
304      * an exception), if any do before the given timeout elapses.
305      * Upon normal or exceptional return, tasks that have not
306      * completed are cancelled.
307      * The results of this method are undefined if the given
308      * collection is modified while this operation is in progress.
309      *
310      * @param tasks the collection of tasks
311      * @param timeout the maximum time to wait
312      * @param unit the time unit of the timeout argument
313      * @return the result returned by one of the tasks.
314      * @throws InterruptedException if interrupted while waiting
315      * @throws NullPointerException if tasks, or unit, or any element
316      *         task subject to execution is <tt>null</tt>
317      * @throws TimeoutException if the given timeout elapses before
318      *         any task successfully completes
319      * @throws ExecutionException if no task successfully completes
320      * @throws RejectedExecutionException if tasks cannot be scheduled
321      *         for execution
322      */
invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks, long timeout, TimeUnit unit)323     <T> T invokeAny(Collection<? extends Callable<T>> tasks,
324                     long timeout, TimeUnit unit)
325         throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException;
326 }
327