Java 8 Streams - Timeout?

Question

I want to loop over a huge array and do a complicated set of instructions that takes a long time. However, if more than 30 seconds have passed, I want it to give up.

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Answer 1

You can use the fact that .allMatch() is a short-circuiting operator to terminate the stream:

final long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
myDataStructure.stream()
    .allMatch(e ->
    {
      // your task here
        return System.currentTimeMillis() <= start + 30000;
    });