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Exiting a Runnable
I have a runnable method that I want to exit immediately (not System.exit). It seems like it should be a trivial thing but I cannot find anything on doing that other than using something called 'interrupt' which I cannot come up with the right syntax to use. Using 'interrupt();' or 'this.interrupt()' is undefined for type runnable. What do I use? TIA.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I thought I figured out what was wrong. The interrupt method is part of the thread class and I needed to properly reference it which I was not doing before.
Code:
Thread.getCurrentThread().interrupt();
Unfortunately that seemed to behave like a noop. The runnable just kept going (yes, I verified that the interrupt was executed). Since I was under a time constraint I wound up changing the logic and rewrote everything so that there was no circumstance where I needed to interrupt the runnable like that.
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