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A set of basic utilities used in Jitsi projects

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package org.jitsi.utils.concurrent;

/**
 * Represents an asynchronous processable task which determines the intervals
 * (the lengths of which may vary) at which it is to be invoked.
 *
 * webrtc/modules/interface/module.h
 *
 * @author Lyubomir Marinov
 * @author George Politis
 */
public interface RecurringRunnable
    extends Runnable
{
    /**
     * Returns the number of milliseconds until this instance wants a worker
     * thread to call {@link #run()}. The method is called on the same
     * worker thread as Process will be called on.
     *
     * @return the number of milliseconds until this instance wants a worker
     * thread to call {@link #run()}
     */
    long getTimeUntilNextRun();
}