Work with TIME

[Maxwell]

Hey

I have an object running on a server, and i want to know if 10 minutes have passed since the last interaction with the object. So, how can i compare if 10 minutes have already elapsed ?

my doubt is: the object is running on the server, so how can i make comparation at real time ?

[Maximus-EVG]

Can you modify the said object?
If yes, then during interaction, as the client you can do something like
setLastInteractionTime(System.currentTimeMillis()) ;
to set the last time you interacted with it.
And then when you get the object back do a comparison between
client's current time and getLastInteractionTime() return.

[Maxwell]

Yes i can, but my goal is to see "automatically" if 10 minutes have passed.

For exemple: for (each 10 minutes passed) {do something}

how can i do that ?

[Maximus-EVG]

Do you know the Listener design pattern (ever used keyListener??)

Essentially your object needs to be the Source of events, and it will fire those events every 10 min since last interaction. You'll still need to have something like setLastInteractionTime.

So anyway, the object is a source of events, inside the object there will be a thread (or maybe the thread should be some dispatcher-type class).
The thread will be used for polling the object for its time, on some specified time interval. So your design will be something as follows:

1. There is a dispatcher class which implements Runnable and has a thread in it.
2. Objects are sources of tenMinPassedEvent, which say, passed the name of the said object to whatever implement's that object's listener interface.
3. What's happening inside the dispather is something like this (in semi-pseudocode):

public void run() {
        Thread current = Thread.currentThread();
        while (current == instanceVarThreadOfDispatcher) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(5);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            pollEveryObject(); //get every object's setLastInteractionTime here, and compare it with current time. If 10 min or more passed, the object generates a tenMinPassedEvent, which is propogated to all other objects which implemented it's Listener interface.
           
    }

Will be accurate to 5ms time, on Thread.sleep(5) call.