Can I interrupt a worker thread?

[Marc-André Laverdière]

This is an interesting thing. I am also wondering how to have
'cancellable' processing. The cancellation event would be once I get a
disconnection.

Since you are likely to be using a thread pool, its a bit hard to know
which thread to call.
By the way, your handler can be executed from different threads, so
storing it wouldn't help.

Interrupting a thread is a bit of an overkill way of informing your
handler, I find. What about having an AtomicBoolean that you check
regularly?

Justin, is there a way we could have this kind of functionality
built-in Netty's API?

Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
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2010/8/14 Nitrostar <nitrostar1 at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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