This article (How to stop thread) gives a good answer to the correct stopping of threads, summing up the following 3 points (when stopping a thread):
1. Use the violate Boolean variable to identify whether the thread is stopped
2. When you stop a thread, you need to call the stop thread's interrupt () method, because the thread may be in wait () or sleep (), increasing the immediacy of the stop thread
3. For blocking IO processing, try to use Interruptiblechannel instead of blocking IO
The core is as follows:
If you is writing your own small thread then you should follow the following example code.
private volatile Thread myThread;
public void Stopmythread () {
Thread tmpthread = MyThread;
MyThread = null;
if (tmpthread! = null) {
Tmpthread.interrupt ();
}
}
public void Run () {
if (MyThread = = null) {
Return Stopped before started.
}
try {
All the Run () method ' s code goes here
...
Do some
Thread.yield (); Let another thread has some time perhaps to stop the this one.
if (Thread.CurrentThread (). isinterrupted ()) {
throw new Interruptedexception ("Stopped by Ifinterruptedstop ()");
}
Do some more work
...
} catch (Throwable t) {
Log/handle All errors Here
}
}
How to properly stop a thread