com.lti.utils.synchronization
Class MessageDrivenThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      com.lti.utils.synchronization.CloseableThread
          com.lti.utils.synchronization.MessageDrivenThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class MessageDrivenThread
extends CloseableThread

A useful base class for a thread that wishes to simply respond to messages.

Author:

Ken Larson

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.lti.utils.synchronization.CloseableThread

closing

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

MessageDrivenThread(java.lang.ThreadGroup group, java.lang.String threadName)

MessageDrivenThread(java.lang.ThreadGroup group, java.lang.String threadName, MessageDrivenThreadListener listener)

Method Summary

protected void	doMessageReceived(java.lang.Object o) subclass should override to do message processing.
void	post(java.lang.Object msg)
void	run()
void	setListener(MessageDrivenThreadListener listener)

Methods inherited from class com.lti.utils.synchronization.CloseableThread

close, isClosed, isClosing, setClosed, setClosing, waitUntilClosed

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MessageDrivenThread

public MessageDrivenThread(java.lang.ThreadGroup group,
                           java.lang.String threadName,
                           MessageDrivenThreadListener listener)

MessageDrivenThread

public MessageDrivenThread(java.lang.ThreadGroup group,
                           java.lang.String threadName)

Method Detail

setListener

public void setListener(MessageDrivenThreadListener listener)

post

public void post(java.lang.Object msg)
          throws java.lang.InterruptedException

Throws:

java.lang.InterruptedException

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

doMessageReceived

protected void doMessageReceived(java.lang.Object o)

subclass should override to do message processing.