ExecutorService that interrupts tasks after a timeout

Question

I\'m looking for an ExecutorService implementation that can be provided with a timeout. Tasks that are submitted to the ExecutorService are interrupted if they take longer t

Answer 1

What about this alternative idea :

• two have two executors :
  • one for :
    • submitting the task, without caring about the timeout of the task
    • adding the Future resulted and the time when it should end to an internal structure
  • one for executing an internal job which is checking the internal structure if some tasks are timeout and if they have to be cancelled.

Small sample is here :

public class AlternativeExecutorService 
{

private final CopyOnWriteArrayList futureQueue       = new CopyOnWriteArrayList();
private final ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor                scheduledExecutor = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1); // used for internal cleaning job
private final ListeningExecutorService                   threadExecutor    = MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(Executors.newFixedThreadPool(5)); // used for
private ScheduledFuture scheduledFuture;
private static final long INTERNAL_JOB_CLEANUP_FREQUENCY = 1000L;

public AlternativeExecutorService()
{
    scheduledFuture = scheduledExecutor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimeoutManagerJob(), 0, INTERNAL_JOB_CLEANUP_FREQUENCY, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}

public void pushTask(OwnTask task)
{
    ListenableFuture future = threadExecutor.submit(task);  // -> create your Callable
    futureQueue.add(new ListenableFutureTask(future, task, getCurrentMillisecondsTime())); // -> store the time when the task should end
}

public void shutdownInternalScheduledExecutor()
{
    scheduledFuture.cancel(true);
    scheduledExecutor.shutdownNow();
}

long getCurrentMillisecondsTime()
{
    return Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MILLISECOND);
}

class ListenableFutureTask
{
    private final ListenableFuture future;
    private final OwnTask                task;
    private final long                   milliSecEndTime;

    private ListenableFutureTask(ListenableFuture future, OwnTask task, long milliSecStartTime)
    {
        this.future = future;
        this.task = task;
        this.milliSecEndTime = milliSecStartTime + task.getTimeUnit().convert(task.getTimeoutDuration(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    }

    ListenableFuture getFuture()
    {
        return future;
    }

    OwnTask getTask()
    {
        return task;
    }

    long getMilliSecEndTime()
    {
        return milliSecEndTime;
    }
}

class TimeoutManagerJob implements Runnable
{
    CopyOnWriteArrayList getCopyOnWriteArrayList()
    {
        return futureQueue;
    }

    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        long currentMileSecValue = getCurrentMillisecondsTime();
        for (ListenableFutureTask futureTask : futureQueue)
        {
            consumeFuture(futureTask, currentMileSecValue);
        }
    }

    private void consumeFuture(ListenableFutureTask futureTask, long currentMileSecValue)
    {
        ListenableFuture future = futureTask.getFuture();
        boolean isTimeout = futureTask.getMilliSecEndTime() >= currentMileSecValue;
        if (isTimeout)
        {
            if (!future.isDone())
            {
                future.cancel(true);
            }
            futureQueue.remove(futureTask);
        }
    }
}

class OwnTask implements Callable
{
    private long     timeoutDuration;
    private TimeUnit timeUnit;

    OwnTask(long timeoutDuration, TimeUnit timeUnit)
    {
        this.timeoutDuration = timeoutDuration;
        this.timeUnit = timeUnit;
    }

    @Override
    public Void call() throws Exception
    {
        // do logic
        return null;
    }

    public long getTimeoutDuration()
    {
        return timeoutDuration;
    }

    public TimeUnit getTimeUnit()
    {
        return timeUnit;
    }
}
}