There are several approaches.
You can call first ExecutorService.shutdown and then ExecutorService.awaitTermination which returns:
true if this executor terminated and false if the timeout elapsed
before termination
So:
There is a function called awaitTermination But a timeout has to be
provided in it. Which is not a guarantee that when this returns all
the tasks would have been finished. Is there a way to achieve this?
You just have to call awaitTermination in a loop.
Using awaitTermination:
A full example of this implementation:
public class WaitForAllToEnd {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
final int total_threads = 4;
ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(total_threads);
for(int i = 0; i < total_threads; i++){
executor.execute(parallelWork(100 + i * 100));
}
int count = 0;
// This is the relevant part
// Chose the delay most appropriate for your use case
executor.shutdown();
while (!executor.awaitTermination(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)) {
System.out.println("Waiting "+ count);
count++;
}
}
private static Runnable parallelWork(long sleepMillis) {
return () -> {
try {
Thread.sleep(sleepMillis);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// Do Something
}
System.out.println("I am Thread : " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
};
}
}
Using CountDownLatch:
Another option is to create a CountDownLatch with a count equal to the number of parallel tasks. Each thread calls countDownLatch.countDown();, while the main thread calls countDownLatch.await();.
A full example of this implementation:
public class WaitForAllToEnd {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
final int total_threads = 4;
CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(total_threads);
ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(total_threads);
for(int i = 0; i < total_threads; i++){
executor.execute(parallelWork(100 + i * 100, countDownLatch));
}
countDownLatch.await();
System.out.println("Exit");
executor.shutdown();
}
private static Runnable parallelWork(long sleepMillis, CountDownLatch countDownLatch) {
return () -> {
try {
Thread.sleep(sleepMillis);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// Do Something
}
System.out.println("I am Thread : " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
countDownLatch.countDown();
};
}
}
Using CyclicBarrier:
Another approach is to use a Cyclic Barrier
public class WaitForAllToEnd {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, BrokenBarrierException {
final int total_threads = 4;
CyclicBarrier barrier = new CyclicBarrier(total_threads+ 1);
ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(total_threads);
for(int i = 0; i < total_threads; i++){
executor.execute(parallelWork(100 + i * 100, barrier));
}
barrier.await();
System.out.println("Exit");
executor.shutdown();
}
private static Runnable parallelWork(long sleepMillis, CyclicBarrier barrier) {
return () -> {
try {
Thread.sleep(sleepMillis);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// Do Something
}
System.out.println("I am Thread : " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
try {
barrier.await();
} catch (InterruptedException | BrokenBarrierException e) {
// Do something
}
};
}
}
There are other approaches as well but those would require changes to your initial requirements, namely:
How to wait for all tasks to be completed when they are submitted
using ExecutorService.execute() .
