Re: Setting a Thread name in a ThreadPool

Hi,

Ooh, that's quite a nice one. I like it. 

-=david=-

On 10/26/06, Kevin Condon <conivek@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

You can use:

ThreadFactory factory = new ThreadFactory() {
  public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
    return new Thread(r, "threadname");
  }
};
Executors.newCachedThreadPool(factory);

Kevin

On 10/26/06, Mike Quilleash <mike.quilleash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> 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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