Re: getting value form the run method of thread

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:02:55 -0400
Message-ID:
<h3ad3g$3rq$1@news.albasani.net>
focode wrote:

dear folks i have a situation before me i have to return a value from
the run method


Joshua Cranmer wrote:

For the record: `I' is always capitalized when using it as a subject
pronoun. And also, proper punctuation makes sentences a lot easier to read.


focode wrote:

// lot of imports...
public class something implements Runnable {


Joshua Cranmer wrote:

While we're nitpicking, Java coding conventions stipulate that classes
should begin with a capital letter.


focode wrote:

//somewhere in the program
newThread = new Thread(this);
newThread.start();


Joshua Cranmer wrote:

At this point your program becomes uncompilable, since statements are
not permitted outside of methods.


focode wrote:

publiv void run()


Joshua Cranmer wrote:

It's `public'--spelling counts.


focode wrote:

come on duds help me out


Joshua Cranmer wrote:

While this may come as a shock to you, not everyone who reads this is
male. And if I strictly stick to your spelling, I do not take kindly to
your rather brash insult (there's a big difference between `dud' and
`dude').

Now, to answer your question, as I understand it:
The way to communicate a value between two different varies changes
based on the circumstances. Sometimes, the spawned thread is an
asynchronous computation, where the value at the end of the computation
is the one needed to be communicated. The simplest way here is probably
to use the Future mechanism (found in java.util.concurrent).

A case I have come across a few times is the need to synchronously query
the user for input and act on that input from a non-GUI thread.
Excluding the work of the event dispatch, the solution here is the
standard wait() and notify() idiom.

With the little information I have, it seems you might be better served
by the latter.


The usual approach in Swing work is to use SwingWorker to invoke non-GUI work
from the EDT, and EventQueue#invokeLater() to invoke GUI work from a non-EDT
thread.

Outside of Swing, there are Executor, Executors, Future and FutureTask.

--
Lew

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