org.drools.core.time
Interface TimerService

All Superinterfaces:

SchedulerService

All Known Implementing Classes:

JDKTimerService, PseudoClockScheduler

public interface TimerService
extends SchedulerService

An interface for all timer service implementations used in a drools session.

Method Summary

long	getCurrentTime() Returns the current time from the scheduler clock
Collection<TimerJobInstance>	getTimerJobInstances(int id) This method may return null for some TimerService implementations that do not want the overhead of maintain this.
long	getTimeToNextJob() Returns the number of time units (usually ms) to the next scheduled job
void	shutdown() Shuts the service down

Methods inherited from interface org.drools.core.time.SchedulerService

removeJob, scheduleJob

Method Detail

getCurrentTime

long getCurrentTime()

Returns the current time from the scheduler clock

Returns:

the current timestamp

shutdown

void shutdown()

Shuts the service down

getTimeToNextJob

long getTimeToNextJob()

Returns the number of time units (usually ms) to the next scheduled job

Returns:

the number of time units until the next scheduled job or -1 if there is no job scheduled

getTimerJobInstances

Collection<TimerJobInstance> getTimerJobInstances(int id)

This method may return null for some TimerService implementations that do not want the overhead of maintain this.

Returns: