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package io.netty.util.concurrent;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
/**
* The {@link EventExecutor} is a special {@link ScheduledExecutorService} which comes
* with some handy methods to see if a {@link Thread} is executed in a event loop.
* Beside this it also extends the {@link EventExecutorGroup} to allow a generic way to
* access methods.
*
*/
public interface EventExecutor extends EventExecutorGroup, ScheduledExecutorService, FutureFactory {
/**
* Returns a reference to itself.
*/
@Override
EventExecutor next();
/**
* Return the {@link EventExecutorGroup} which is the parent of this {@link EventExecutor},
*/
EventExecutorGroup parent();
/**
* Calls {@link #inEventLoop(Thread)} with {@link Thread#currentThread()} as argument
*/
boolean inEventLoop();
/**
* Return {@code true} if the given {@link Thread} is executed in the event loop,
* {@code false} otherwise.
*/
boolean inEventLoop(Thread thread);
}