Re: email w/timer -- how to test if successful
maya wrote:
boolean success = timer.schedule(task,reminderDate);
if (!success) {
out.println("success");
} else {
out.println("error");
}
I get error:
cannot convert from void to boolean
Of course, since Timer#schedule does not return a boolean value.
how can I generate stmts based on whether or not timer task was executed
successfully please....
There are a lot of possibilities. A simple one would be to add callback
methods to the enclosing class, something like this:
class A {
void doSomethingInteresting() {
TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
try {
tr.send(message);
taskDone();
} catch (Exception e) {
taskFailed(e);
}
}
};
// ...
}
void taskDone() {
System.out.println("Message sent successfully");
}
void taskFailed(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
Bye
Michael
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