Cancelable.java

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 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
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package com.yixia.zi.widget.cropimage;

import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

/**
 * The interface for all the tasks that could be canceled.
 */
public interface Cancelable<T> {
    /*
     * Requests this <code>Cancelable</code> to be canceled. This function will
     * return <code>true</code> if and only if the task is originally running
     * and now begin requested for cancel.
     *
     * If subclass need to do more things to cancel the task. It can override
     * the code like this:
     * <pre>
     *     @Override
     *     public boolean requestCancel() {
     *         if (super.requestCancel()) {
     *             // do necessary work to cancel the task
     *             return true;
     *         }
     *         return false;
     *     }
     * </pre>
     */
    public boolean requestCancel();

    public void await() throws InterruptedException;

    /**
     * Gets the results of this <code>Cancelable</code> task.
     *
     * @throws ExecutionException if exception is thrown during the execution of
     *         the task
     */
    public T get() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException;
}