揭秘Future cancel迷惑性boolean入参～

前言

当我们使用线程池submit一个任务后，会返回一个Future，而在Future接口中存在一个cancel方法，来帮助我们取消掉任务。

但是cancel方法有一个boolean类型的入参，比较迷惑，之前也了解过该入参true 和 false的区别，但过一段时间之后就又忘了，遂写了本文进行记录，顺便了解下源码～

/**
 * Attempts to cancel execution of this task.  This attempt will
 * fail if the task has already completed, has already been cancelled,
 * or could not be cancelled for some other reason. If successful,
 * and this task has not started when {@code cancel} is called,
 * this task should never run.  If the task has already started,
 * then the {@code mayInterruptIfRunning} parameter determines
 * whether the thread executing this task should be interrupted in
 * an attempt to stop the task.
 *
 * <p>After this method returns, subsequent calls to {@link #isDone} will
 * always return {@code true}.  Subsequent calls to {@link #isCancelled}
 * will always return {@code true} if this method returned {@code true}.
 *
 * @param mayInterruptIfRunning {@code true} if the thread executing this
 * task should be interrupted; otherwise, in-progress tasks are allowed
 * to complete
 * @return {@code false} if the task could not be cancelled,
 * typically because it has already completed normally;
 * {@code true} otherwise
 */
boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning);
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上面是cancel方法的接口定义，当然英文看着麻烦，咱直接翻译成看得懂的～

• cancel方法，会尝试取消任务的执行，但如果任务已经完成、已经取消或其他原因无法取消，则尝试取消任务失败。

• 如果取消成功，并且在取消时

  • 该任务还未执行，那么这个任务永远不会执行。
  • 如果该任务已经启动，那么会根据cancel的boolean入参来决定是否中断执行此任务的线程