Question

I am reading from a properties file with

actiontimer = properties.getProperty(“action1”);

I get a String back, and want to convert this into a timer to use it later in my program.

private Timer actiontimer

Casting does not work, I get:

Cannot cast from String to Timer

How can I do this casting?

UPDATE:

Formating in the properties file:

action1:12314

Answer 1

Convert the String to an Integer.

now use the [Timer’s Schedule] passing an int as an argument.

   String s = "12314"; 
        Integer delay = Integer.parseInt(s);
        Timer timer = new Timer(); 
        TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            }
        };
        timer.schedule(task, delay);