Problem combining Delay Queue and Executor Service

Question

I'm trying to create an Executor Service using a DelayQueue for the blocking queue with Java 8. I created a class that implements Runnable and Delayed, and implemented the required methods:

public class CurlEvent implements Runnable, Delayed {...}

I constructed the queue, then the ExecutorService:

BlockingQueue<CurlEvent> queue = new DelayQueue<>();
ThreadPoolExecutor executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(threads, threads, 36, TimeUnit.HOURS, queue);

The compiler flagged an error for the ThreadPoolExecutor constructor, even though CurlEvent implements Runnable:

java: incompatible types: java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue<com.dtna.web.test.playback.CurlEvent> cannot be converted to java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue<java.lang.Runnable>

There must be some way around this. I can move to a later Java release if necessary

Answer 1

I found the answer here: How do you cast a List of supertypes to a List of subtypes?

In my case this worked out to:

        ThreadPoolExecutor executor = new ThreadPoolExecutor(threads, threads, 36, TimeUnit.HOURS, (BlockingQueue<Runnable>)(BlockingQueue<?>) queue);