Re: How do I wait for the thread from the ThreadPool to finish?

Minnie Haridasa wrote:

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> Hi.
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> I am trying to use the PooledExecutor to create a thread pool. Once I 
> create my runnable task that needs to be executed, how does the 
> calling thread wait for the thread in the pool to finish, especially 
> since I do not have the handle to the thread that is executing the task.
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> threadPool.execute(task);
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> // At this point the calling thread needs to wait for the task to 
> complete.
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Use the submit method (in ExecutorService interface):

Future f = executor.submit(runnable, null);

then you can wait using f.get().


(You can also explicitly wrap your runnable into callable before 
submitting: Executors.callable(runnable)).

Regards,
Dawid