Re: Safety Of Non-Synchronized Collections
Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
On 1/10/2013 10:14 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> writes:
On 1/10/2013 6:37 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
Whenever thread safety is needed, you mostly need to synchronize not
only the single method call to an instance of StringBuffer or some other
class of the jdk, but also some context around it.
This is probably not the case, because another thread might
call an (unsynchronized) StringBuilder method while you're in
the middle of your synchronized block:
If you use the same instance in many places, potentially in different
threads, you should of course synchronize all of them using the same
lock.
StringBuilder sb = ...;
// Thread T1:
synchronized(sb) {
if (sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) == '\n') {
sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
}
}
// Thread T2:
sb.append("Gotcha!");
And so, this should be
synchronized(sb) {
sb.append("Gotcha?");
}
The synchronization in T1's code is no protection against
interference from T2. If `sb' were changed from a StringBuilder
to a StringBuffer, the race condition would disappear.
Like I said, you could be in trouble if T2 makes that call somewhere
between the calls to the first sb.length() and sb.deletCharAt in T1 even
if sb is a StringBuffer.
If T2 makes such a call while T1 is in the synchronized block,
T2 will stall until T1's synchronized block finishes (or perhaps
longer). No race, no trouble.
Only if you add the synchronization also to T2, like I did
above. Without that, nothing will prevent T2 from calling sb.append
between the separate calls from T1 to sb, no matter whether sb is
StringBuffer or StringBuilder.
--
Jukka Lahtinen
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