kotlinx.coroutines

Class DelayKt

kotlinx.coroutines.DelayKt

public class DelayKt

Method Summary

Modifier and Type

Method and Description

static java.lang.Object

delay(long timeMillis, kotlin.coroutines.experimental.Continuation<? super kotlin.Unit> p) Delays coroutine for a given time without blocking a thread and resumes it after a specified time. This suspending function is cancellable. If the interface Job of the current coroutine is cancelled or completed while this suspending function is waiting, this function immediately resumes with CancellationException.

Method Detail

delay

public static java.lang.Object delay(long timeMillis,
                                     kotlin.coroutines.experimental.Continuation<? super kotlin.Unit> p)

Delays coroutine for a given time without blocking a thread and resumes it after a specified time. This suspending function is cancellable. If the interface Job of the current coroutine is cancelled or completed while this suspending function is waiting, this function immediately resumes with CancellationException.

Note, that delay can be used in select invocation with SelectBuilder.onTimeout clause.

Implementation note: how exactly time is tracked is an implementation detail of class CoroutineDispatcher in the context.

Parameters:

timeMillis - time in milliseconds.

See Also:

interface Job, SelectBuilder.onTimeout, class CoroutineDispatcher