Package com.yahoo.concurrent

Interface Timer

All Known Implementing Classes:

SystemTimer

public interface Timer

This interface wraps access to some timer that can be used to measure elapsed time, in milliseconds. This abstraction allows for unit testing the behavior of time-based constructs.

Author:

Simon Thoresen Hult

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
long	milliTime()	Returns the current value of some arbitrary timer, in milliseconds.

Method Detail

milliTime

long milliTime()

Returns the current value of some arbitrary timer, in milliseconds. This method can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time.

Returns:

The current value of the timer, in milliseconds.