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+/*
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file is available under and governed by the GNU General Public
+ * License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ * However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this
+ * file:
+ *
+ * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
+ * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at
+ * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
+ */
+
+package java.util.concurrent;
+
+/**
+ * A <tt>Future</tt> represents the result of an asynchronous
+ * computation.  Methods are provided to check if the computation is
+ * complete, to wait for its completion, and to retrieve the result of
+ * the computation.  The result can only be retrieved using method
+ * <tt>get</tt> when the computation has completed, blocking if
+ * necessary until it is ready.  Cancellation is performed by the
+ * <tt>cancel</tt> method.  Additional methods are provided to
+ * determine if the task completed normally or was cancelled. Once a
+ * computation has completed, the computation cannot be cancelled.
+ * If you would like to use a <tt>Future</tt> for the sake
+ * of cancellability but not provide a usable result, you can
+ * declare types of the form <tt>Future&lt;?&gt;</tt> and
+ * return <tt>null</tt> as a result of the underlying task.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * <b>Sample Usage</b> (Note that the following classes are all
+ * made-up.) <p>
+ * <pre>
+ * interface ArchiveSearcher { String search(String target); }
+ * class App {
+ *   ExecutorService executor = ...
+ *   ArchiveSearcher searcher = ...
+ *   void showSearch(final String target)
+ *       throws InterruptedException {
+ *     Future&lt;String&gt; future
+ *       = executor.submit(new Callable&lt;String&gt;() {
+ *         public String call() {
+ *             return searcher.search(target);
+ *         }});
+ *     displayOtherThings(); // do other things while searching
+ *     try {
+ *       displayText(future.get()); // use future
+ *     } catch (ExecutionException ex) { cleanup(); return; }
+ *   }
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * The {@link FutureTask} class is an implementation of <tt>Future</tt> that
+ * implements <tt>Runnable</tt>, and so may be executed by an <tt>Executor</tt>.
+ * For example, the above construction with <tt>submit</tt> could be replaced by:
+ * <pre>
+ *     FutureTask&lt;String&gt; future =
+ *       new FutureTask&lt;String&gt;(new Callable&lt;String&gt;() {
+ *         public String call() {
+ *           return searcher.search(target);
+ *       }});
+ *     executor.execute(future);
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions taken by the asynchronous computation
+ * <a href="package-summary.html#MemoryVisibility"> <i>happen-before</i></a>
+ * actions following the corresponding {@code Future.get()} in another thread.
+ *
+ * @see FutureTask
+ * @see Executor
+ * @since 1.5
+ * @author Doug Lea
+ * @param <V> The result type returned by this Future's <tt>get</tt> method
+ */
+public interface Future<V> {
+
+    /**
+     * Attempts to cancel execution of this task.  This attempt will
+     * fail if the task has already completed, has already been cancelled,
+     * or could not be cancelled for some other reason. If successful,
+     * and this task has not started when <tt>cancel</tt> is called,
+     * this task should never run.  If the task has already started,
+     * then the <tt>mayInterruptIfRunning</tt> parameter determines
+     * whether the thread executing this task should be interrupted in
+     * an attempt to stop the task.
+     *
+     * <p>After this method returns, subsequent calls to {@link #isDone} will
+     * always return <tt>true</tt>.  Subsequent calls to {@link #isCancelled}
+     * will always return <tt>true</tt> if this method returned <tt>true</tt>.
+     *
+     * @param mayInterruptIfRunning <tt>true</tt> if the thread executing this
+     * task should be interrupted; otherwise, in-progress tasks are allowed
+     * to complete
+     * @return <tt>false</tt> if the task could not be cancelled,
+     * typically because it has already completed normally;
+     * <tt>true</tt> otherwise
+     */
+    boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns <tt>true</tt> if this task was cancelled before it completed
+     * normally.
+     *
+     * @return <tt>true</tt> if this task was cancelled before it completed
+     */
+    boolean isCancelled();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns <tt>true</tt> if this task completed.
+     *
+     * Completion may be due to normal termination, an exception, or
+     * cancellation -- in all of these cases, this method will return
+     * <tt>true</tt>.
+     *
+     * @return <tt>true</tt> if this task completed
+     */
+    boolean isDone();
+
+    /**
+     * Waits if necessary for the computation to complete, and then
+     * retrieves its result.
+     *
+     * @return the computed result
+     * @throws CancellationException if the computation was cancelled
+     * @throws ExecutionException if the computation threw an
+     * exception
+     * @throws InterruptedException if the current thread was interrupted
+     * while waiting
+     */
+    V get() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException;
+
+    /**
+     * Waits if necessary for at most the given time for the computation
+     * to complete, and then retrieves its result, if available.
+     *
+     * @param timeout the maximum time to wait
+     * @param unit the time unit of the timeout argument
+     * @return the computed result
+     * @throws CancellationException if the computation was cancelled
+     * @throws ExecutionException if the computation threw an
+     * exception
+     * @throws InterruptedException if the current thread was interrupted
+     * while waiting
+     * @throws TimeoutException if the wait timed out
+     */
+    V get(long timeout, TimeUnit unit)
+        throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException, TimeoutException;
+}