How to pause/resume all threads in an ExecutorService in Java?

Question

I submitted bunch of jobs to an executorservice in Java and I somehow want to temporarily pause all these jobs. What's the best way to do this? How can I resume? Or am I doing this completely wrong? Should I follow some other pattern for what I want to achieve (i.e. ability to pause/resume execution services)?

Answer 1

To answer my own question, I found an example of a PausableThreadPoolExecutor in the javadocs of ThreadPoolExecutor itself. Here is my version using Guava's Monitors:

import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Monitor;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;

public class PausableExecutor extends ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor {

    private boolean isPaused;

    private final Monitor monitor = new Monitor();
    private final Monitor.Guard paused = new Monitor.Guard(monitor) {
        @Override
        public boolean isSatisfied() {
            return isPaused;
        }
    };

    private final Monitor.Guard notPaused = new Monitor.Guard(monitor) {
        @Override
        public boolean isSatisfied() {
            return !isPaused;
        }
    };

    public PausableExecutor(int corePoolSize, ThreadFactory threadFactory) {
        super(corePoolSize, threadFactory);
    }

    protected void beforeExecute(Thread t, Runnable r) {
        super.beforeExecute(t, r);
        monitor.enterWhenUninterruptibly(notPaused);
        try {
            monitor.waitForUninterruptibly(notPaused);
        } finally {
            monitor.leave();
        }
    }

    public void pause() {
        monitor.enterIf(notPaused);
        try {
            isPaused = true;
        } finally {
            monitor.leave();
        }
    }

    public void resume() {
        monitor.enterIf(paused);
        try {
            isPaused = false;
        } finally {
            monitor.leave();
        }
    }
}