1 /* InheritableThreadLocal -- a ThreadLocal which inherits values across threads
2 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GNU Classpath.
6 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
11 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
18 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
21 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
22 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
23 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
26 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
27 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
28 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
29 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
30 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
31 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
32 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
33 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
34 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
35 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
36 exception statement from your version. */
40 import java
.util
.ArrayList
;
41 import java
.util
.Collections
;
42 import java
.util
.Iterator
;
43 import java
.util
.List
;
45 import java
.util
.WeakHashMap
;
48 * A ThreadLocal whose value is inherited by child Threads. The value of the
49 * InheritableThreadLocal associated with the (parent) Thread is copied to
50 * the new (child) Thread at the moment of creation.
52 * <p>It is possible to make the value associated with the child Thread a
53 * function of the value that is associated with the parent Thread by
54 * overriding the <code>childValue()</code> method. The utility of this class
55 * is in transferring items like User ID or Transaction ID across threads
58 * @author Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
59 * @author Eric Blake <ebb9@email.byu.edu>
62 * @status updated to 1.4
64 public class InheritableThreadLocal
extends ThreadLocal
67 * Maps Threads to a List of InheritableThreadLocals (the heritage of that
68 * Thread). Uses a WeakHashMap so if the Thread is garbage collected the
69 * List can be collected, too. Maps to a list in case the user overrides
72 private static final Map threadMap
73 = Collections
.synchronizedMap(new WeakHashMap());
76 * Creates a new InheritableThreadLocal that has no values associated
79 public InheritableThreadLocal()
81 Thread currentThread
= Thread
.currentThread();
82 // Note that we don't have to synchronize, as only this thread will
83 // ever modify the returned heritage and threadMap is a synchronizedMap.
84 List heritage
= (List
) threadMap
.get(currentThread
);
87 heritage
= new ArrayList();
88 threadMap
.put(currentThread
, heritage
);
94 * Determines the value associated with a newly created child Thread as a
95 * function of the value associated with the currently executing (parent)
96 * Thread. The default implementation just returns the parentValue.
98 * @param parentValue the value of this object in the parent thread at
99 * the moment of creation of the child
100 * @return the initial value for the child thread
102 protected Object
childValue(Object parentValue
)
108 * Generates the childValues of all <code>InheritableThreadLocal</code>s
109 * that are in the heritage of the current Thread for the newly created
110 * childThread. Should be called from the contructor Thread.
112 * @param childThread the newly created thread, to inherit from this thread
113 * @see Thread#Thread(ThreadGroup, Runnable, String)
115 static void newChildThread(Thread childThread
)
117 // The currentThread is the parent of the new thread.
118 Thread parentThread
= Thread
.currentThread();
119 // Note that we don't have to synchronize, as only this thread will
120 // ever modify the returned heritage and threadMap is a synchronizedMap.
121 ArrayList heritage
= (ArrayList
) threadMap
.get(parentThread
);
122 if (heritage
!= null)
124 threadMap
.put(childThread
, heritage
.clone());
125 // Perform the inheritance.
126 Iterator it
= heritage
.iterator();
127 int i
= heritage
.size();
130 InheritableThreadLocal local
= (InheritableThreadLocal
) it
.next();
131 Object parentValue
= local
.valueMap
.get(parentThread
);
132 if (parentValue
!= null)
134 Object childValue
= local
.childValue(parentValue
== NULL
135 ?
null : parentValue
);
136 local
.valueMap
.put(childThread
, (childValue
== null
137 ? NULL
: parentValue
));