com.jcabi.log

Class VerboseThreads

java.lang.Object

com.jcabi.log.VerboseThreads

All Implemented Interfaces:

ThreadFactory

public final class VerboseThreads
extends Object
implements ThreadFactory

Convenient ThreadFactory, that logs all uncaught exceptions.

The factory should be used together with executor services from java.util.concurrent package. Without these "verbose" threads your runnable tasks will not report anything to console once they die because of a runtime exception, for example:

 Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2).scheduleAtFixedRate(
   new Runnable() {
     @Override
     public void run() {
       // some sensitive operation that may throw
       // a runtime exception
     },
     1L, 1L, TimeUnit.SECONDS
   }
 );

The exception in this example will never be caught by nobody. It will just terminate current execution of the Runnable task. Moreover, it won't reach any Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler, because this is how ScheduledExecutorService is behaving. This is how we solve the problem with VerboseThreads:

 ThreadFactory factory = new VerboseThreads();
 Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2, factory).scheduleAtFixedRate(
   new Runnable() {
     @Override
     public void run() {
       // the same sensitive operation that may throw
       // a runtime exception
     },
     1L, 1L, TimeUnit.SECONDS
   }
 );

Now, every runtime exception that is not caught inside your Runnable will be reported to log (using Logger).

This class is thread-safe.

Since:

0.1.2

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Yegor Bugayenko (yegor@tpc2.com)

See Also:

VerboseRunnable

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
VerboseThreads() Default constructor ("verbose" as a prefix, threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).
VerboseThreads(Class<?> type) Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).
VerboseThreads(Object type) Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).
VerboseThreads(String pfx) Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).
VerboseThreads(String pfx, boolean dmn, int prt) Detailed constructor.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Thread	newThread(Runnable runnable)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

VerboseThreads

public VerboseThreads()

Default constructor ("verbose" as a prefix, threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).

VerboseThreads

public VerboseThreads(String pfx)

Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).

Parameters:

pfx - Prefix for thread names

VerboseThreads

public VerboseThreads(Object type)

Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).

Parameters:

type - Prefix will be build from this type name

VerboseThreads

public VerboseThreads(Class<?> type)

Detailed constructor, with a prefix of thread names (threads are daemons, default thread priority is 1).

Parameters:

type - Prefix will be build from this type name

VerboseThreads

public VerboseThreads(String pfx,
              boolean dmn,
              int prt)

Detailed constructor.

Parameters:

pfx - Prefix for thread names

dmn - Threads should be daemons?

prt - Default priority for all threads

Method Detail

newThread

public Thread newThread(Runnable runnable)

Specified by:

newThread in interface ThreadFactory