Question

Lets say you have a class MyClass that has a constructor

public Myclass(SomeObject o)

Myclass, additionally has a method public void doSomethingCleverWith(String s)

I’d like for MyClass to be executed as a Thread, so I

Thread t = new Thread(new MyClass(SomeObject));

When executing this thread, however run, will need to call doSomethingCleverWith(String). run, however (as i understand it) does not take in any parameters.

How would you recommend i handle this? Should String s be a part of a MyClass‘s constructor? Can i somehow do something else?

Answer 1

You don’t execute an object on a thread – you execute code on a thread… the code specified by the run() method of the runnable that you pass in to the Thread constructor, assuming you’re doing it that way.

It’s not really clear what you’re trying to do, but it sounds like you probably need to pass the extra information (the string) to the constructor of MyClass… or execute it in a different way, such as:

final MyClass tmp = new MyClass(SomeObject));
Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override public void run() {
        tmp.doSomethingCleverWithString(someValueHere);
    }
});

If you clarify what you’re trying to achieve, we may be able to help you more.