Kill thread in java after a certain time

Question

I have a use case as following (in JAVA)

I receive a request from client

E.g: Do twitter streaming task till this date.

• Task = twitter streaming
• Keywords = {"#Today", "#apple"}
• Time = till 5 feburary 2017

What I do is, I open a new thread on every request that I receive and start my task which is streaming of tweets and saving them to the database.

What I want to do is the thread should stop streaming and should get killed after this date (Feb 5).

How can I implement this type of use-case?

Answer 1

You can use the Calendar class and check that e.g.

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone(ZoneId.of("CET")));
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 1)
c.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 5)
c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
c.set(Calendar.SECOND, 59);
c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 999);

while(true){
 Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone(ZoneId.of("CET")));
 if(cal.getTime().after(c.getTime()) return;
}