Set running time limit on a method in java

Question

I have a method that returns a String, is it possible that after a certain time treshold is excedeed fot that method to return some specific string?

Answer 1

As answered of @MarcoS

I found timeout is not raised if method is locking something and not release cpu time to Timer. Then Timer cannot start new thread. So I change a bit by start Thread immediately and sleep inside thread.

        InterruptTimerTaskAddDel interruptTimerTask = new InterruptTimerTaskAddDel(
                Thread.currentThread(),timeout_msec);

        timer.schedule(interruptTimerTask, 0);

        /*
 * A TimerTask that interrupts the specified thread when run.
 */
class InterruptTimerTaskAddDel extends TimerTask {

    private Thread theTread;
    private long timeout;

    public InterruptTimerTaskAddDel(Thread theTread,long i_timeout) {
        this.theTread = theTread;
        timeout=i_timeout;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            Thread.currentThread().sleep(timeout);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace(System.err);
        }
        theTread.interrupt();
    }

}