我想运行一个线程一段固定的时间。如果在该时间内没有完成,我想要终止它,抛出一些异常,或者以某种方式处理它。怎样才能做到呢?

我从这篇文章中找到了一种方法 是在线程的run()方法中使用一个TimerTask。

有没有更好的解决方案?

  编辑:添加赏金,因为我需要一个更明确的答案。下面给出的ExecutorService代码没有解决我的问题。为什么我应该在执行(一些代码-我没有处理这段代码)后睡觉()?如果代码完成并且sleep()被中断,那怎么可能是timeOut呢?

The task that needs to be executed is not in my control. It can be any piece of code. The problem is this piece of code might run into an infinite loop. I don't want that to happen. So, I just want to run that task in a separate thread. The parent thread has to wait till that thread finishes and needs to know the status of the task (i.e whether it timed out or some exception occured or if its a success). If the task goes into an infinite loop, my parent thread keeps on waiting indefinitely, which is not an ideal situation.


当前回答

假设线程代码不在你的控制范围内:

根据上面提到的Java文档:

What if a thread doesn't respond to Thread.interrupt? In some cases, you can use application specific tricks. For example, if a thread is waiting on a known socket, you can close the socket to cause the thread to return immediately. Unfortunately, there really isn't any technique that works in general. It should be noted that in all situations where a waiting thread doesn't respond to Thread.interrupt, it wouldn't respond to Thread.stop either. Such cases include deliberate denial-of-service attacks, and I/O operations for which thread.stop and thread.interrupt do not work properly.

底线:

确保所有线程都可以被中断,否则你需要特定的线程知识——比如设置一个标志。也许你可以要求将任务连同停止任务所需的代码一起交给你——用stop()方法定义一个接口。您还可以在停止任务失败时发出警告。

其他回答

下面的代码片段将在单独的线程中启动一个操作,然后等待最多10秒以使操作完成。如果操作没有及时完成,代码将尝试取消该操作,然后继续其愉快的方式。即使操作不能轻易取消,父线程也不会等待子线程终止。

ExecutorService executorService = getExecutorService();
Future<SomeClass> future = executorService.submit(new Callable<SomeClass>() {
    public SomeClass call() {
        // Perform long-running task, return result. The code should check
        // interrupt status regularly, to facilitate cancellation.
    }
});
try {
    // Real life code should define the timeout as a constant or
    // retrieve it from configuration
    SomeClass result = future.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    // Do something with the result
} catch (TimeoutException e) {
    future.cancel(true);
    // Perform other error handling, e.g. logging, throwing an exception
}

getExecutorService()方法可以通过多种方式实现。如果您没有任何特殊的要求,您可以简单地调用Executors.newCachedThreadPool()进行线程池,没有线程数量的上限。

考虑使用ExecutorService的实例。invokeAll()和invokeAny()方法都有一个超时参数。

当前线程将阻塞直到方法完成(不确定这是否是可取的),因为任务正常完成或达到超时。您可以检查返回的Future以确定发生了什么。

有一件事我没有看到提到的是,杀死线程通常是一个坏主意。有一些技术可以使线程方法完全可中止,但这与在超时后杀死线程是不同的。

您所建议的风险在于,您可能不知道当您终止线程时线程将处于什么状态—因此您可能会引入不稳定性。更好的解决方案是确保线程代码不会自动挂起,或者能够很好地响应中止请求。

我正在寻找一个ExecutorService,它可以中断由它执行的所有超时的Runnables,但没有找到。几个小时后,我创建了一个如下所示。可以修改该类以增强健壮性。

public class TimedExecutorService extends ThreadPoolExecutor {
    long timeout;
    public TimedExecutorService(int numThreads, long timeout, TimeUnit unit) {
        super(numThreads, numThreads, 0L, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS, new ArrayBlockingQueue<Runnable>(numThreads + 1));
        this.timeout = unit.toMillis(timeout);
    }

    @Override
    protected void beforeExecute(Thread thread, Runnable runnable) {
        Thread interruptionThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    // Wait until timeout and interrupt this thread
                    Thread.sleep(timeout);
                    System.out.println("The runnable times out.");
                    thread.interrupt();
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });
        interruptionThread.start();
    }
}

用法:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Runnable abcdRunnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            System.out.println("abcdRunnable started");
            try {
                Thread.sleep(20000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // logger.info("The runnable times out.");
            }
            System.out.println("abcdRunnable ended");
        }
    };

    Runnable xyzwRunnable = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            System.out.println("xyzwRunnable started");
            try {
                Thread.sleep(20000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // logger.info("The runnable times out.");
            }
            System.out.println("xyzwRunnable ended");
        }
    };

    int numThreads = 2, timeout = 5;
    ExecutorService timedExecutor = new TimedExecutorService(numThreads, timeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    timedExecutor.execute(abcdRunnable);
    timedExecutor.execute(xyzwRunnable);
    timedExecutor.shutdown();
}

我也有同样的问题。所以我想出了一个简单的解决办法。

public class TimeoutBlock {

 private final long timeoutMilliSeconds;
    private long timeoutInteval=100;

    public TimeoutBlock(long timeoutMilliSeconds){
        this.timeoutMilliSeconds=timeoutMilliSeconds;
    }

    public void addBlock(Runnable runnable) throws Throwable{
        long collectIntervals=0;
        Thread timeoutWorker=new Thread(runnable);
        timeoutWorker.start();
        do{ 
            if(collectIntervals>=this.timeoutMilliSeconds){
                timeoutWorker.stop();
                throw new Exception("<<<<<<<<<<****>>>>>>>>>>> Timeout Block Execution Time Exceeded In "+timeoutMilliSeconds+" Milli Seconds. Thread Block Terminated.");
            }
            collectIntervals+=timeoutInteval;           
            Thread.sleep(timeoutInteval);

        }while(timeoutWorker.isAlive());
        System.out.println("<<<<<<<<<<####>>>>>>>>>>> Timeout Block Executed Within "+collectIntervals+" Milli Seconds.");
    }

    /**
     * @return the timeoutInteval
     */
    public long getTimeoutInteval() {
        return timeoutInteval;
    }

    /**
     * @param timeoutInteval the timeoutInteval to set
     */
    public void setTimeoutInteval(long timeoutInteval) {
        this.timeoutInteval = timeoutInteval;
    }
}

保证if块没有在时间限制内执行。该流程将终止并抛出异常。

例子:

try {
        TimeoutBlock timeoutBlock = new TimeoutBlock(10 * 60 * 1000);//set timeout in milliseconds
        Runnable block=new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                //TO DO write block of code 
            }
        };

        timeoutBlock.addBlock(block);// execute the runnable block 

    } catch (Throwable e) {
        //catch the exception here . Which is block didn't execute within the time limit
    }