How do i set up a DelayQueue's Delay

Question

I\'m just starting out coding in java i\'m in struggling with setting up a DelayQueue,

I wanted to have it so,

DelayQueue queue = new DelayQueue();

         


        

Answer 1

this implementation of Delayed is good because:

• implementation of compareTo() does not do any class casting, eliminatig the possibility of throwing a ClassCastException
• implementation of compareTo() uses Math.min and Math.max functions before casting to int in order to properly prevent overflow errors
• implementation of getDelay() properly converts the units and actually returns the time remaining

TestDelay class implements Delayed:

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.util.concurrent.Delayed;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class TestDelay implements Delayed
{
    public final Long delayMillis;
    public final Long expireTimeMillis;

    public TestDelay(Long delayMillis)
    {
        this.delayMillis = delayMillis;
        this.expireTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis()+delayMillis;
    }

    @Override
    public final int compareTo(@NotNull Delayed o)
    {
        long diffMillis = getDelay(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)-o.getDelay(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
        diffMillis = Math.min(diffMillis,1);
        diffMillis = Math.max(diffMillis,-1);
        return (int) diffMillis;
    }

    @Override
    public final long getDelay(@NotNull TimeUnit unit)
    {
        long delayMillis = expireTimeMillis-System.currentTimeMillis();
        return unit.convert(delayMillis,TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    }
}

JUnit unit test showing an example of using the TestDelay class:

import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.concurrent.DelayQueue;

public class DelayQueueTest
{
    @Test
    public final void generalTest() throws InterruptedException
    {
        DelayQueue q = new DelayQueue<>();
        q.put(new TestDelay(500L));
        q.put(new TestDelay(2000L));
        q.put(new TestDelay(1000L));
        q.put(new TestDelay(10L));
        q.put(new TestDelay(3000L));
        while (!q.isEmpty())
        {
            System.out.println(q.take().delayMillis);
        }
    }
}

output of DelayQueueTest: