/** * $Revision: 1.3 $ * $Date: 2009/08/13 03:01:49 $ * * Copyright (C) 2006 Jive Software. All rights reserved. * * This software is published under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL), * a copy of which is included in this distribution. */ package com.ideal.idealim.util; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; /** * Improvement version of the javax SwingWorker class to avoid deadlocks. This gives user * multi-threaded abilities within their swing apps. * * @author Derek DeMoro */ public abstract class SwingWorker { private Object value; // see getValue(), setValue() /** * Class to maintain reference to current worker thread * under separate synchronization control. */ private static class ThreadVar { private Thread thread; ThreadVar(Thread t) { thread = t; } synchronized Thread get() { return thread; } synchronized void clear() { thread = null; } } private ThreadVar threadVar; /** * Get the value produced by the worker thread, or null if it * hasn't been constructed yet. * * @return Object produced by worker thread. */ protected synchronized Object getValue() { return value; } /** * Set the value produced by worker thread * * @param x Sets value for worker thread. */ private synchronized void setValue(Object x) { value = x; } /** * Compute the value to be returned by the <code>get</code> method. * * @return Object computed. */ public abstract Object construct(); /** * Called on the event dispatching thread (not on the worker thread) * after the <code>construct</code> method has returned. */ public void finished() { } /** * A new method that interrupts the worker thread. Call this method * to force the worker to stop what it's doing. */ public void interrupt() { Thread t = threadVar.get(); if (t != null) { t.interrupt(); System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() + " : Thread Interrupted is " + t.isInterrupted()); } threadVar.clear(); } public void sleep(long millis) { Thread t = threadVar.get(); if (t != null) { try { t.sleep(millis); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } } } /** * Return the value created by the <code>construct</code> method. * Returns null if either the constructing thread or the current * thread was interrupted before a value was produced. * * @return the value created by the <code>construct</code> method */ public Object get() { while (true) { Thread t = threadVar.get(); if (t == null) { return getValue(); } try { t.join(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); // propagate return null; } } } /** * Start a thread that will call the <code>construct</code> method * and then exit. */ public SwingWorker() { new Runnable() { public void run() { finished(); } }; Runnable doConstruct = new Runnable() { public void run() { try { setValue(construct()); } finally { threadVar.clear(); } SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { finished(); } }); } }; Thread t = new Thread(doConstruct); threadVar = new ThreadVar(t); } /** * Start the worker thread. */ public void start() { Thread t = threadVar.get(); if (t != null) { t.start(); } } }
public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { SwingWorker worker = new SwingWorker() { public Object construct() { System.out.println("constructing..."); return null; } }; worker.start(); } }