Scheduled Execution

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Quests  •  Adding Mobs

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Objects  •  Trading System  •  Adding Consumable Items

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Abilities and Combat Plugin  •  Combat Statistics  •  Extending the MARS Combat System  •  Group System  •  Trainer Plug-in  •  Professions  •  Experience System

Tutorials

Defining Quests  •  Scripting Mobs  •  Defining Items

Other Examples

Triggering an Action with a Mouseclick  •  Scheduled Execution  •  Working with Sound  •  Creating a Teleporter

The class multiverse.server.engine.Engine provides a mechanism for scheduling tasks for execution at some future time. To schedule a task:

1. Create a class (in Java or Python) that implements the Runnable interface.
2. Call Engine.getExecutor().scheduleAtFixedRate() with the following arguments:
   • The class that implements Runnable.
   • Initial delay before execution.
   • Subsequent interval between executions.
   • Time unit (TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS, TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS, or TimeUnit.SECONDS)

This method returns a java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor object, that you can use in a variety of ways to schedule execution.

Here is a Python example:

class PeriodicExample (Runnable):
  def run(self):
    WorldManagerClient.sendSysChatMsg("periodic example")

The line below runs this periodic example, initially 30 seconds after execution of the statement, then subsequently every 60 seconds:

Engine.getExecutor().scheduleAtFixedRate(PeriodicExample(), 30, 60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)