[infinispan-dev] Time for a tryLock() ?

[Mircea Markus]

On 26 Apr 2012, at 18:29, Dan Berindei wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 26 Apr 2012, at 13:05, Dan Berindei wrote:
>> 
>> What seems to be missing is an overload with a custom timeout, it may
>> be useful to try locking with a shorter timeout in the first attempt
>> (maybe even 0?) like we do for deadlock detection.
>> 
>> 
>> There is a flag for that.
>> 
>> https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/infinispan/context/Flag.java#L79
>> 
> 
> Forgot about that one :)
> But still, it only allows a 0 timeout, so it's not exactly what I had
> in mind - which would be a custom timeout per operation.
Flags are Enum and not parametrizable, I guess we'd need to enhance the API to allow associating a param with a Flag as well.