Package org.glassfish.jersey.internal.guava

Class Ticker

java.lang.Object

org.glassfish.jersey.internal.guava.Ticker

public abstract class Ticker
extends Object

A time source; returns a time value representing the number of nanoseconds elapsed since some fixed but arbitrary point in time. Note that most users should use Stopwatch instead of interacting with this class directly.

Warning: this interface can only be used to measure elapsed time, not wall time.

Since:

10.0 (mostly source-compatible since 9.0)

Author:

Kevin Bourrillion

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract long	read()	Returns the number of nanoseconds elapsed since this ticker's fixed point of reference.
static Ticker	systemTicker()	A ticker that reads the current time using System.nanoTime().

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

systemTicker

public static Ticker systemTicker()

A ticker that reads the current time using System.nanoTime().

Since:

10.0

read

public abstract long read()

Returns the number of nanoseconds elapsed since this ticker's fixed point of reference.