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#ifndef _ACTIVEMQ_THREADS_TASKRUNNER_H_
#define _ACTIVEMQ_THREADS_TASKRUNNER_H_

#include <activemq/util/Config.h>
#include <activemq/threads/Task.h>

namespace activemq {
namespace threads {

    class AMQCPP_API TaskRunner {
    public:

        virtual ~TaskRunner();

        /**
         * Starts the task runner.  Prior to call this method tasks can be added to a
         * Runner, but no executions will occur.  The start method will create the
         * background Thread(s) which do the work for this task runner.
         */
        virtual void start() = 0;

        /**
         * @retuns true if the start method has been called.
         */
        virtual bool isStarted() const = 0;

        /**
         * Shutdown after a timeout, does not guarantee that the task's iterate
         * method has completed and the thread halted.
         *
         * @param timeout - Time in Milliseconds to wait for the task to stop.
         */
        virtual void shutdown(long long timeout) = 0;

        /**
         * Shutdown once the task has finished and the TaskRunner's thread has exited.
         */
        virtual void shutdown() = 0;

        /**
         * Signal the TaskRunner to wakeup and execute another iteration cycle on
         * the task, the Task instance will be run until its iterate method has
         * returned false indicating it is done.
         */
        virtual void wakeup() = 0;

    };

}}

#endif /*_ACTIVEMQ_THREADS_TASKRUNNER_H_*/