Can I force an extra run of a scheduled execution?

concurrency, java, scheduledexecutorservice

Solution

When you want the task to run you can submit it

executor.submit(periodic);

or add it with a delay

executor.schedule(periodic, delay, units);

Problem

I have a singleThreadExecutor that I'm feeding a Runnable with a scheduledFixedDelay like this ``` Runnable periodic = new Runnable() { ... } ScheduledExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor(); executor.scheduleWithFixedDelay(periodic, 1, 1, TimeUnit.MINUTES); ``` It will run with 1 minute delay between executions. Problem is, sometimes I need to run it "on demand". Is that possible? I've thought about cancelling the execution, run the Runnable and restart the execution but what I would really like is some simple method thats just executes the Runnable a head of time and the reschedules it to run again in one minute.

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