kotlinx.coroutines.experimental

Class EventLoopKt

kotlinx.coroutines.experimental.EventLoopKt

public class EventLoopKt

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static CoroutineDispatcher	EventLoop(java.lang.Thread thread, Job parentJob) Creates a new event loop that is bound the specified thread (current thread by default) and stops accepting new events when parentJob completes. Every continuation that is scheduled onto this event loop unparks the specified thread via LockSupport.unpark.

Method Detail

EventLoop

public static CoroutineDispatcher EventLoop(java.lang.Thread thread,
                                            Job parentJob)

Creates a new event loop that is bound the specified thread (current thread by default) and stops accepting new events when parentJob completes. Every continuation that is scheduled onto this event loop unparks the specified thread via LockSupport.unpark.

The main event-processing loop using the resulting eventLoop object should look like this:

while (needsToBeRunning) {
    if (Thread.interrupted()) break // or handle somehow
    LockSupport.parkNanos(eventLoop.processNextEvent()) // event loop will unpark
}

See Also:

LockSupport.unpark