Re: Collections and Decorators
ankur wrote:
So, thats why Iterator operations need to manually synched. But my
question is why was this left unsynched in Java ? All other public
methods are synched on Object mutex in the static class
Please explain to me how to properly synchronize an iterator in a
wrapper like this. The purpose of synchronization is to ensure that
modifications are atomic and so will not be modified by other threads.
SynchronizedCollection can only provide method-level synchronization by
its inherent design. For an iterator, the atomicity that would need to
be implied is the entire iteration. The implementation cannot force
synchronization across multiple methods, so the caller must provide the
needed synchronization.
It is true that an iterator with a very complex next() or hasNext()
methods might benefit from synchronization, but the contract is already
implying that the user must synchronize around the iteration in the
first place, so such a lock would be merely redundant.
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