Can I interrupt a worker thread?

[Nitrostar]

Hi,

Can I interrupt a worker thread? What I'm trying to achieve is unnecessary
computation after I've timed out for a given request.

I have a TimerTask on every incoming http request. If it fires, I want to
return an error and kill the current Thread processing that request.

In my setup I have a request object that is constructed in my handler's
messageReceived method. I'm thinking about storing the Thread that's
servicing the request in this object and calling interrupt on it if the
TimerTask expires. I would obviously make sure my TimerTask doesn't fire if
I've already sent a response back.

Thanks,
Nitro
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