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Revision: 1.4
Committed: Tue Jun 24 14:34:47 2003 UTC (20 years, 11 months ago) by dl
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: JSR166_PRELIMINARY_TEST_RELEASE_2
Changes since 1.3: +4 -2 lines
Log Message:
Added missing javadoc tags; minor reformatting

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# Content
1 /*
2 * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
3 * Expert Group and released to the public domain. Use, modify, and
4 * redistribute this code in any way without acknowledgement.
5 */
6
7 package java.util.concurrent;
8 import java.util.Map;
9
10 /**
11 * A {@link java.util.Map} providing an additional atomic
12 * <tt>putIfAbsent</tt> method.
13 * @since 1.5
14 * @author Doug Lea
15 */
16 public interface ConcurrentMap<K, V> extends Map<K, V> {
17 /**
18 * If the specified key is not already associated
19 * with a value, associate it with the given value.
20 * This is equivalent to
21 * <pre>
22 * if (!map.containsKey(key)) map.put(key, value);
23 * return get(key);
24 * </pre>
25 * Except that the action is performed atomically.
26 * @param key key with which the specified value is to be associated.
27 * @param value value to be associated with the specified key.
28 * @return previous value associated with specified key, or <tt>null</tt>
29 * if there was no mapping for key. A <tt>null</tt> return can
30 * also indicate that the map previously associated <tt>null</tt>
31 * with the specified key, if the implementation supports
32 * <tt>null</tt> values.
33 *
34 * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the <tt>put</tt> operation is
35 * not supported by this map.
36 * @throws ClassCastException if the class of the specified key or value
37 * prevents it from being stored in this map.
38 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if some aspect of this key or value
39 * prevents it from being stored in this map.
40 * @throws NullPointerException this map does not permit <tt>null</tt>
41 * keys or values, and the specified key or value is
42 * <tt>null</tt>.
43 *
44 **/
45 V putIfAbsent(K key, V value);
46 }