Minecraft-Console-Client/MinecraftClient/AutoTimeout.cs

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace MinecraftClient
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Allow easy timeout on pieces of code
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// By ORelio - (c) 2014 - CDDL 1.0
    /// </remarks>
    public class AutoTimeout
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Perform the specified action with specified timeout
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="action">Action to run</param>
        /// <param name="timeout">Maximum timeout in milliseconds</param>
        /// <returns>True if the action finished whithout timing out</returns>
        public static bool Perform(Action action, int timeout)
        {
            return Perform(action, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeout));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Perform the specified action with specified timeout
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="action">Action to run</param>
        /// <param name="timeout">Maximum timeout</param>
        /// <returns>True if the action finished whithout timing out</returns>
        public static bool Perform(Action action, TimeSpan timeout) {
            Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(action));
            thread.Start();
            bool success = thread.Join(timeout);
            if (!success)
                thread.Interrupt();

            thread = null;
            return success;
        }
    }
}