Introduction
In this quick post we look at how to let a thread sleep for a given time.
Sleep
Sleep is used when you want to let a thread wait for a given amount of time. To make a thread sleep, you can use the method
Thread.sleep();
. It can either take the number of milliseconds, milliseconds and nanoseconds or a Duration
as a parameter.
The following example has the MyTask
class that implements the Runnable interface. Inside the class is the method run
which calls two sleep methods inside a try-catch statement. The first Thread.sleep(1000)
call makes the method wait 1000 milliseconds/ 1 second.
The second Thread.sleep(Duration.ofSeconds(5))
passes a duration of 5 seconds as a parameter. When waiting on the sleep
is done, the application
will continue as usual.
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