Small API Tweak to Task (Worker)

[Richard Bair]

What are some examples of tasks that would not be cancelable?

Richard

On Sep 2, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build a UI representation of a Task (using a ProgressBar and
> other things).
> 
> Since Tasks are cancellabe I thought about adding a button to cancel the
> underlying Task. So far so good.
> 
> Is there any reason why a Task can not express, if it is intended for the
> task to act cooperative to a call to cancel? Something along the following
> lines
> 
> public boolean isCancellable() { return true; }  // default
> 
> This would enable users of the API to distinguish between Tasks which
> really can be cancelled from those which just fulfill the API contract.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -Sven
> 
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