TimeOut in Java and C#

Question

If this is the way to get "timeout" of a system in Java:

timeoutMs = System.currentTimeMillis() + DataLog.getTimeout();
 try {
            dataLog.thread.join(DataLog.getTimeout());
        }
        catch (InterruptedException e) {}
        if (!dataLog.thread.interrupted()) {
            dataLog.thread.interrupt();
        }
        if (System.currentTimeMillis() > timeoutMs) {
            return ("Communication timeout");
        } else {
            return (dataLog.getResult());
        }
    }

Is the following code a good way to get the timeout of the system using C#?

Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
    sw.Start();
    while (true)
    {
        timeoutMs=DataLog.getTimeout();
     }

It is a small part of a big Project so I do not have possibility to see the result in the output..please let me know If it is correct or not!

Thanks in advance...

Code provided doesn't makes sense. Your java code seems to compute a time in future, where as your c# code loops indefinitely calling a method. — Sriram Sakthivel, May 06 '14 at 11:04
Actually, The only thing that I want to do is converting that one line java code to C# — m k, May 06 '14 at 11:10
It returns: public static long getTimeout() { return Timeout.getDataLogTimeout(); } — m k, May 06 '14 at 11:16
And `Timeout.getDataLogTimeout()` presumably returns `Settings.getDataLogTimeout()`. — vgru, May 06 '14 at 11:17
In Timeout class there is a function which is called getDataLogTimeout() — m k, May 06 '14 at 11:17
@mk: you should describe **what** you are trying to accomplish. The code you have posted doesn't make sense. It's hard to suggest a way to do something, if you don't describe the purpose of the code. — vgru, May 06 '14 at 11:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '14 at 11:20

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First of all, if this is your way of pausing a thread (e.g. to display a dialog for a certain amount of time), it's a very bad way to do it.

That being said, if you're using a Stopwatch, you could spin the CPU by simply doing this:

// start the stop 
var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
while (sw.ElapsedMilliseconds < 1000)
{
     /* do nothing */ 
}

And, of course, you can do a nasty Thread.Sleep call to create a pause:

Thread.Sleep(1000);

The closest to your code in C# would look something like:

var timeoutMs = Environment.TickCount + DataLog.Timeout;

But I am pretty sure that you are doing something terribly wrong.

answered May 06 '14 at 11:20

vgru

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@mk: For the updated question, this link should be more appropriate: [Close a MessageBox after several seconds](http://stackoverflow.com/q/14522540/69809). There are many examples in that thread. – vgru May 06 '14 at 11:32
Thanks but I do not get their relevance! MessageBox and Timeout! – m k May 06 '14 at 11:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '14 at 11:23

Assuming you want the current time in milliseconds and then add the timeout to it from your method, assuming a millseconds return value:

var x = DateTime.Now.Ticks / TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond;
var timeout = DataLog.getTimeOut();
var timeoutMs = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(x).Add(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeout))

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