com.mgnt.utils

Class TimeUtils

java.lang.Object

com.mgnt.utils.TimeUtils

public class TimeUtils
extends java.lang.Object

This is simple Utility class that has a convenience sleep method that "swallows" Created by Michael Gantman on 22/12/2015.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TimeUtils()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	sleepFor(long period, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit timeUnit) This method is a convenience method for method sleep() of classes Thread or TimeUnit.
static void	sleepFor(TimeInterval timeInterval) This is an overload for method sleepFor(long, TimeUnit) which is provided for convenience.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TimeUtils

public TimeUtils()

Method Detail

sleepFor

public static void sleepFor(long period,
                            java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit timeUnit)

This method is a convenience method for method sleep() of classes Thread or TimeUnit. This method catches InterruptedException So when this method is used, there is no need to worry about catching InterruptedException This method has TimeUnit parameter in addition to time period so it makes it very convenient. So with this method there is no need to convert the time into milliseconds. Just simply write

sleepFor(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

No Exception catching needed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When this method catches InterruptedException it interrupts current thread so, that Thread Interruption mechanism continues to work when this method is used

Parameters:

period - time period to sleep

timeUnit - TimeUnit that specifies in which units the time period is measured

sleepFor

public static void sleepFor(TimeInterval timeInterval)

This is an overload for method sleepFor(long, TimeUnit) which is provided for convenience. Method sleepFor(long, TimeUnit) could be very readable if you use actual values, for example

sleepFor(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

But it you have your values stored in variables or especially already in instance of TimeInterval, then it doesn't make it any more readable to write

TimeUtils.sleepFor(timeInterval.getValue(), timeInterval.getTimeUnit());

Hence this convenience method is provided

Parameters:

timeInterval - TimeInterval instance that holds the time period to be waited for