How to kill a Thread which is reading Data

[Sudarshan Muramreddy]

HI All,
Is there any way we can kill a thread which is reading data with out using stop method(i think Sun is going to depricate this method).
which typically could occur when user tries to read a file using java.IO API.

Regards,
Sudarshan

[Fletcher Estes]

This would generally be done using the interrupt() method. If your thread is blocked on any I/O read/write and its interrupt method is called, a ClosedByInterruptException will be thrown, which you can catch and deal with gracefully in the thread.

You should take a look at the JavaDocs for the Thread class.

[Anton Golovin]

Set a flag on your Runnable class and have the object instance check its copy periodically and exit if it is a certain value.