A question about the TimerTask class

[yma16]

In run() method of the TimerTask class, I need to modify an array. But run() is void. How can I get the array after the change?

This question is related the project I posted a few days ago call "Program for the store"

Thank you very much.

[Fubarable]

You might wish to respond to the good folks who helped you in the previous thread. :)

[Fubarable]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Just a simple thanks for replying was what I meant, something to acknowledge that you read their post and appreciate the time they took to consider your problem and try to help you.

Any way regarding your problem, TimerTask will need to be extended to be used, and often this is done as an anonymous inner class. Its run method's signature cannot be changed, and so this method will never return anything, but that's OK, since you'll never call it directly and so you really don't want it to return anything. Rather, you'll likely have it changing the state of either fields it holds, or more likely (if it is being used as an anonymous inner class) of fields held by the containing class.

[JosAH]

Any way regarding your problem, TimerTask will need to be extended to be used, and often this is done as an anonymous inner class. Its run method's signature cannot be changed, and so this method will never return anything, but that's OK, since you'll never call it directly and so you really don't want it to return anything. Rather, you'll likely have it changing the state of either fields it holds, or more likely (if it is being used as an anonymous inner class) of fields held by the containing class.

In the java.util.concurrent package there's the Future interface (with a FutureTask implementation). It does exactly what the OP wants. That package should be used more ...

kind regards,

Jos