A task that is executed by a ThreadPool object. More...

Public Types
enum	JobStatus { jobHasFinished = 0, jobNeedsRunningAgain }
	These are the values that can be returned by the runJob() method. More...

Public Member Functions
	ThreadPoolJob (const String &name)
	Creates a thread pool job object. More...

virtual	~ThreadPoolJob ()
	Destructor. More...

String	getJobName () const
	Returns the name of this job. More...

void	setJobName (const String &newName)
	Changes the job's name. More...

virtual JobStatus	runJob ()=0
	Peforms the actual work that this job needs to do. More...

bool	isRunning () const noexcept
	Returns true if this job is currently running its runJob() method. More...

bool	shouldExit () const noexcept
	Returns true if something is trying to interrupt this job and make it stop. More...

void	signalJobShouldExit ()
	Calling this will cause the shouldExit() method to return true, and the job should (if it's been implemented correctly) stop as soon as possible. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static ThreadPoolJob *	getCurrentThreadPoolJob ()
	If the calling thread is being invoked inside a runJob() method, this will return the ThreadPoolJob that it belongs to. More...

Detailed Description

A task that is executed by a ThreadPool object.

A ThreadPool keeps a list of ThreadPoolJob objects which are executed by its threads.

The runJob() method needs to be implemented to do the task, and if the code that does the work takes a significant time to run, it must keep checking the shouldExit() method to see if something is trying to interrupt the job. If shouldExit() returns true, the runJob() method must return immediately.

See also: ThreadPool, Thread

Member Enumeration Documentation

enum ThreadPoolJob::JobStatus

These are the values that can be returned by the runJob() method.

Enumerator
jobHasFinished	indicates that the job has finished and can be removed from the pool.
jobNeedsRunningAgain	indicates that the job would like to be called again when a thread is free.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ThreadPoolJob::ThreadPoolJob ( const String & name )

explicit

Creates a thread pool job object.

After creating your job, add it to a thread pool with ThreadPool::addJob().

virtual ThreadPoolJob::~ThreadPoolJob ( )

virtual

Destructor.

Member Function Documentation

String ThreadPoolJob::getJobName ( ) const

Returns the name of this job.

See also: setJobName

void ThreadPoolJob::setJobName ( const String & newName )

Changes the job's name.

See also: getJobName

virtual JobStatus ThreadPoolJob::runJob ( )

pure virtual

Peforms the actual work that this job needs to do.

Your subclass must implement this method, in which is does its work.

If the code in this method takes a significant time to run, it must repeatedly check the shouldExit() method to see if something is trying to interrupt the job. If shouldExit() ever returns true, the runJob() method must return immediately.

If this method returns jobHasFinished, then the job will be removed from the pool immediately. If it returns jobNeedsRunningAgain, then the job will be left in the pool and will get a chance to run again as soon as a thread is free.