Help with "implements Runnable"

[Brad]

I am pretty new to Java and the more I read about threads, the more I start to get confused. I have a method that does a database task that can sometimes take awhile. When it does this my GUI locks up until the task is done. So I figured running this on a separate thread would make sense.

Here is what I have in my class

public class BucketTool implements Runnable{
  private String bucketPath;
  private String user;
  private String pass;
  private String dbset;
  private String dbname;
  private String qr;
 
    public void bucket(String bucketPath, String user, String pass, String dbset, String dbname, String qr) {
        this.bucketPath = bucketPath;
        this.user = user;
        this.pass = pass;
        this.dbset = dbset;
        this.dbname = dbname;
        this.qr = qr;

       public void bucket(String bucketPath, String user, String pass, String dbset, String dbname, String qr) {
        
                   .....some method logic here
     }
    @Override
      public void run(){
      bucket(bucketPath, user, pass, dbset,dbname,qr);   
   }
  }

Then I have the following code in Main

//        if(fail ==0){
//          BucketTool BucketT = new BucketTool();
//          BucketT.bucket(bucketPath, user, pass, dbset, dbname, qr);
//        }

       if(fail ==0){
         BucketTool BucketT = new BucketTool();
         Thread t = new Thread(BucketT);
         t.start();
       }

My question is, how do I pass my arguments into my Thread t? Seems like everything I try gives me a syntax error.

Thanks.

[KevinWorkman]

It looks like you would pass it into a constructor for BucketTool.

[Brad]

That worked! Thanks.

[Tolls]

If your GUI is a Swing GUI then it has the SwingWorker whose job it is to launch background tasks like this.

That is assuming this is a task that is launched by the user interacting with the GUI.