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package org.jboss.errai.common.client.api.tasks;

/**
 * A handle representing an asynchronous task that has been submitted to the message bus.
 */
public interface AsyncTask {

  /**
   * Prevents this task from being scheduled again, optionally interrupting the
   * task if it is currently running.
   *
   * @param interrupt
   *          if true, and this task is presently being executed,
   *          {@link Thread#interrupt()} will be called on the thread currently
   *          executing this task.
   */
  public void cancel(boolean interrupt);

  /**
   * Sets the task that should be run after all executions of this task have
   * completed. The supplied runnable is guaranteed to be invoked exactly once,
   * even if this task has already completed or it has been cancelled.
   *
   * @param runnable
   *          the logic to execute when this task has completed all of its
   *          executions, either because it completed normally, by throwing an
   *          exception, or because it was cancelled by a call to
   *          {@link #cancel(boolean)}.
   */
  public void setExitHandler(Runnable runnable);

  /**
   * Returns true if {@link #cancel(boolean)} has been called on this task,
   * whether it was called from user code or from within the framework because
   * the task threw an exception.
   *
   * @return true if this task has been cancelled; false otherwise.
   */
  public boolean isCancelled();
}
