Autocompletion with Thread objects
I have been wondering for a while why autocompletion doesn't seem to work properly with Thread objects: It doesn't list the sleep and yield methods (and eventually a few others ?).
Yet if you write the sleep call yourself without enclosing it in a InterruptedException try-catch block, the parser will detect the error and the whole statement will as expected be underlined in red.
Has anyone an explanation about that paranormal phenomenon ?
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properly with Thread objects: It doesn't list the sleep and yield methods
(and eventually a few others ?).
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InterruptedException try-catch block, the parser will detect the error and
the whole statement will as expected be underlined in red.
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It's because those methods are static, and IntelliJ defaults to ignoring static methods from an instance context. You can change the behavior under IDE Options - Completion - Show static members after instance qualifier.
Oh, i had never noticed that sleep and yield were static methods, i had taken the habit of invoking them on the Thread.currentThread() object.
Allright, thanks, this answers my question.
Yes, I believe that when you call Thread.sleep(), it puts the current thread to sleep anyways, so Thread.currentThread().sleep is the same thing as Thread.sleep(). At least that's how it was explained to me once.
Tobin Juday wrote:
Thread.currentThread().sleep() would imply that you could cause any
thread to sleep if you have a reference to its Thread object. Since that
is not the case, sleep is a static method which always acts on the
current thread. Ditto for yield.
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Gordon
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