Android APIs
public abstract class

RecursiveTask

extends ForkJoinTask<V>
java.lang.Object
   ↳ java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask<V>
     ↳ java.util.concurrent.RecursiveTask<V>

Class Overview

A recursive result-bearing ForkJoinTask.

For a classic example, here is a task computing Fibonacci numbers:

 class Fibonacci extends RecursiveTask {
   final int n;
   Fibonacci(int n) { this.n = n; 
   Integer compute() {
     if (n <= 1)
       return n;
     Fibonacci f1 = new Fibonacci(n - 1);
     f1.fork();
     Fibonacci f2 = new Fibonacci(n - 2);
     return f2.compute() + f1.join();
   }
 }}
However, besides being a dumb way to compute Fibonacci functions (there is a simple fast linear algorithm that you'd use in practice), this is likely to perform poorly because the smallest subtasks are too small to be worthwhile splitting up. Instead, as is the case for nearly all fork/join applications, you'd pick some minimum granularity size (for example 10 here) for which you always sequentially solve rather than subdividing.

Summary

Public Constructors
RecursiveTask()
Public Methods
final V getRawResult()
Returns the result that would be returned by join(), even if this task completed abnormally, or null if this task is not known to have been completed.
Protected Methods
abstract V compute()
The main computation performed by this task.
final boolean exec()
Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask.
final void setRawResult(V value)
Forces the given value to be returned as a result.
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Inherited Methods
From class java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask
From class java.lang.Object
From interface java.util.concurrent.Future

Public Constructors

public RecursiveTask ()

Added in API level 21

Public Methods

public final V getRawResult ()

Added in API level 21

Returns the result that would be returned by join(), even if this task completed abnormally, or null if this task is not known to have been completed. This method is designed to aid debugging, as well as to support extensions. Its use in any other context is discouraged.

Returns
  • the result, or null if not completed

Protected Methods

protected abstract V compute ()

Added in API level 21

The main computation performed by this task.

protected final boolean exec ()

Added in API level 21

Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask.

Returns
  • true if this task is known to have completed normally

protected final void setRawResult (V value)

Added in API level 21

Forces the given value to be returned as a result. This method is designed to support extensions, and should not in general be called otherwise.

Parameters
value the value