Re: Setting a Thread name in a ThreadPool

I asked the same question a while back.  The solution for me was to wrap
up whatever you are submitting to the executor with a Runnable.

Something like

Public class ThreadRenameWrapper implements Runnable
{
  private final String name;
  private final Runnable runnable;

  public ThreadRenameWrapper( String name, Runnable runnable )
  {
    this.name = name;
    this.runnable = runnable;
  }

  public void run()
  {
    Thread thread = Thread.currentThread();
    String oldName = thread.getName();

    thread.setName( name );
    try
    {
      runnable.run();
    }
    finally
    {
      thread.setName( oldName );
    }
  }
}

HTH.

-----Original Message-----
From: concurrency-interest-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:concurrency-interest-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Harrigan
Sent: 26 October 2006 13:13
To: concurrency-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [concurrency-interest] Setting a Thread name in a ThreadPool


Hi,

Previously, if I wanted to set a thread name, I could so something like
this:

new Thread(new RunnableTask(), "DoSomethingWonderfulThread").start();

now, if I'm delgating over to an Executors, like
Executors.newCachedThreadPool(), and using that to execute my thread:

ExecutorService s = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(); s.execute(new
RunnableTask());

The execute method isn't overloaded to provide a name, so, how do I go
about setting the Thread name? 

-=david=-
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