Question

i need to run the following code for only 60 seconds

the code works prefect with delay for 2 sec and repeat every 5 seconds..

but here i need to do this all for 60 seconds only

        int delay = 3000; // delay for 3 sec. 
        int period = 5000; // repeat every 5 sec. 
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {

            public void run() {
                System.out.println("Would it run?"+System.currentTimeMillis());
            }
        }, delay, period);

Please let me know how to do this?

Answer 1

You can do it simply with a ScheduledExecutorService:

• Schedule the task
• retrieve the ScheduledFuture
• cancel that future after 60 seconds:

final ScheduledExecutorService scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1);

final Runnable task = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        System.out.println("Would it run?"+System.currentTimeMillis());
    }
};
final ScheduledFuture<?> handle =
        scheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, 2, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
scheduler.schedule(new Runnable() {
    public void run() { handle.cancel(true); }
}, 60, SECONDS);