1 /* 2 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project 3 * 4 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License, 5 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 6 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: 7 * 8 * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT 12 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the 13 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations 14 * under the License. 15 */ 16 package io.netty.util; 17 18 import java.util.Set; 19 import java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException; 20 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; 21 22 /** 23 * Schedules {@link TimerTask}s for one-time future execution in a background 24 * thread. 25 */ 26 public interface Timer { 27 28 /** 29 * Schedules the specified {@link TimerTask} for one-time execution after 30 * the specified delay. 31 * 32 * @return a handle which is associated with the specified task 33 * 34 * @throws IllegalStateException if this timer has been {@linkplain #stop() stopped} already 35 * @throws RejectedExecutionException if the pending timeouts are too many and creating new timeout 36 * can cause instability in the system. 37 */ 38 Timeout newTimeout(TimerTask task, long delay, TimeUnit unit); 39 40 /** 41 * Releases all resources acquired by this {@link Timer} and cancels all 42 * tasks which were scheduled but not executed yet. 43 * 44 * @return the handles associated with the tasks which were canceled by 45 * this method 46 */ 47 Set<Timeout> stop(); 48 }