com.yammer.metrics.core
Class Clock

java.lang.Object
  com.yammer.metrics.core.Clock

Direct Known Subclasses:

Clock.CpuTime, Clock.UserTime

public abstract class Clock
extends Object

An abstraction for how time passes. It is passed to TimerMetric to track timing.

Nested Class Summary

static class	Clock.CpuTime Another implementation, uses ThreadMXBean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime()
static class	Clock.UserTime Default implementation, uses System.nanoTime().

Field Summary

static Clock

DEFAULT The default clock to use.

Constructor Summary

Clock()

Method Summary

abstract long	tick() Gets the current time tick
long	time() Gets the current time in milliseconds

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DEFAULT

public static final Clock DEFAULT

The default clock to use.

Constructor Detail

Clock

public Clock()

Method Detail

tick

public abstract long tick()

Gets the current time tick

Returns:

time tick in nanoseconds

time

public long time()

Gets the current time in milliseconds

Returns:

time in milliseconds