Interface Delayed

All Superinterfaces:
Comparable<Delayed>
All Known Subinterfaces:
RunnableScheduledFuture<V>, ScheduledFuture<V>
public interface Delayed
extends Comparable<Delayed>

A mix-in style interface for marking objects that should be acted upon after a given delay.

An implementation of this interface must define a compareTo method that provides an ordering consistent with its getDelay method.

Since:
1.5

Methods

Modifier and Type Method Description
long getDelay​(TimeUnit unit)

Returns the remaining delay associated with this object, in the given time unit.

Methods declared in interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods

getDelay

long getDelay(TimeUnit unit)

Returns the remaining delay associated with this object, in the given time unit.

Parameters:
unit - the time unit
Returns:
the remaining delay; zero or negative values indicate that the delay has already elapsed