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();

If (counter > 0){
queue.offer(Integer, *A custom delay*)
} Else {
queue.offer(Integer, *A different custom delay*)
}

I'm just trying to learn all the basics and ive read over the API and cant seem to grasp it.

Thanks in advance

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<TestDelay> 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:

Answer 2

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

public class DelayQueueExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        BlockingQueue<DelayedElement> blockingQueue = new DelayQueue<DelayedElement>();

        try {
            blockingQueue
                    .put(new DelayedElement(4000, "Message with delay 4s"));
            blockingQueue
                    .put(new DelayedElement(2000, "Message with delay 2s"));
            blockingQueue
                    .put(new DelayedElement(9000, "Message with delay 9s"));
        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
        }

        while (!blockingQueue.isEmpty()) {
            try {
                System.out.println(">>" + blockingQueue.take());
            } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            }

        }

    }
}

class DelayedElement implements Delayed {

    private long duration = 0;
    private String message;

    public DelayedElement(long duration, String name) {
        this.duration = System.currentTimeMillis() + duration;
        this.message = name;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Delayed o) {
        return (int) (this.duration - ((DelayedElement) o).getDuration());
    }

    @Override
    /*
     * Expiration occurs when an element's getDelay(TimeUnit unit) method
     * returns a value less than or equal to zero.
     */
    public long getDelay(TimeUnit unit) {
        long diff = duration - System.currentTimeMillis();
        return unit.convert(diff, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    }

    public long getDuration() {
        return duration;
    }

    public void setDuration(long duration) {
        this.duration = duration;
    }

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }

    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "DelayedElement [duration=" + duration + ", message=" + message
                + "]";
    }

}