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Scheduling tasks in Quasar, without spawning a new thread

I'd like to spawn many Actors which execute a private method at a specific time interval. This task will need to run at the time interval indefinitely until the Actor is terminated.

All of the solutions I've seen in Java involve creating a new thread, for example Spring's TaskExecutor or using ScheduledExecutorService. Because an Actor already has its own Fiber, I see no reason to spawn a thread unless my task is very heavy.

In Elixir, this was very simple to achieve using Process.send_after().

Is there a similar way to do this in Java using Quasar?

Solution

  • Fiber has method sleep(long millis), so you can easily create a fiber which executes periodically with:

    while (!end) {
    doTask();
    sleep(period);
}