Run some code in background

[Toinou9120]

Hello,

In my mod, I use the Java URLConnection to connect to a website and get some stats. I connect to the website with a TickEvent.ClientTickEvent event, but it takes like 2-3 sec so the game freeze during this time.  Is this possible to run this code in a background thread or something that will not freeze the game ?

[Silly511]

Just make a daemon thread.

public class StatDownloadThread extends Thread {
	
	public  StatDownloadThread() {
		this.setDaemon(true);
		this.start();
	}
	
	public void run() {
		//Fetch stats.
	}
	
}

 

[Toinou9120]

  On 10/16/2017 at 7:07 AM, diesieben07 said:

This is definitely not a "just do X" question. Multithreading is a difficult topic, especially in Minecraft, since most of the game's code is not threadsafe.

 

• Yes, you need some kind of thread, but you almost never want to use the raw thread API. Use an Executor resp. ExecutorService.
• URLConnection is terrible. Use the Apache HttpClient that is included with Minecraft already.

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Thank, I will try this.