[concurrency-interest] ThreadLocal example bug.

[Pete.Soper at Sun.COM]

Oh. I thought the fragment of the class file Tom sent me was the code in 
question. Dang.

Pete

Jason Mehrens wrote:

> Pete,
>
> The code you have attached bellow is correct (and what i would expect 
> to see) however, it is not the code out on the web. From 
> http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/lang/ThreadLocal.html
>
> import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
>
> public class UniqueThreadIdGenerator {
>
>      private static final AtomicInteger uniqueId = new AtomicInteger(0);
>
>      private static final ThreadLocal < Integer > uniqueNum =
>          new ThreadLocal < Integer > () {
>              @Override protected Integer initialValue() {
>                  return uniqueId.getAndIncrement();
>          }
>      };
>
>      public static int getCurrentThreadId() {
>          return uniqueId.get();
>      }
> } // UniqueThreadIdGenerator
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jason Mehrens
>
>
>> From: Pete.Soper at Sun.COM
>> To: Jason Mehrens <jason_mehrens at hotmail.com>
>> CC: concurrency-interest at cs.oswego.edu
>> Subject: Re: [concurrency-interest] ThreadLocal example bug.
>> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:20:20 -0400
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>             For the example code field uniqueId is a "dispenser" of 
>> the next available id value and that is used once per thread (but is 
>> visible to all threads) via the overriden initialVlaue method 
>> invocation that is a side effect of the first invocation of 
>> uniqueNum.get. The per-thread value is maintained by ThreadLocal code 
>> that you can't see and it never changes for a given thread. But maybe 
>> I'm missing something. Do you have a misbehaving test?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pete
>>
>>  import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
>>
>>  public class UniqueThreadIdGenerator {
>>
>>      private static final ThreadLocal < Integer > uniqueNum =
>>          new ThreadLocal < Integer > () {
>>              final AtomicInteger uniqueId = new AtomicInteger(0);
>>              @Override protected Integer initialValue() {
>>                  return uniqueId.getAndIncrement();
>>              }
>>          };
>>
>>      public static int getCurrentThreadId() {
>>          return uniqueNum.get();
>>      }
>>  } // UniqueThreadIdGenerator
>>
>
>
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