Detecting thread interruption with JNA native wait call (Windows)

Question

I\'m trying to write some code that performs a wait via JNA (e.g. by calling the Kernel32 function WaitForSingleObject), but I\'d also like the wait to finish if Thread.inte

Answer 1

Java supports it via NIO and very few people are aware of, the class in question is abstract but that's no issue:

java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel. It has 3 methods of interest: begin() and end(), those are final, plus that one you have to implement: "protected abstract void implCloseChannel() throws IOException" The method is going to be called from the thread invoking interrupt(), so be careful.

The use is very simple: call begin before entering the native code and end() upon return. Handling the interruption in implCloseChannel.

Happy coding!