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Revision: 1.15
Committed: Mon Feb 9 13:28:47 2004 UTC (20 years, 4 months ago) by dl
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: JSR166_PFD
Changes since 1.14: +2 -2 lines
Log Message:
Wording fixes and improvements

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# User Rev Content
1 dl 1.2 /*
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 tim 1.1 package java.util.concurrent;
8     import java.util.*;
9    
10     /**
11 dl 1.3 * A {@link java.util.Set} that uses {@link
12     * java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList} for all of its
13     * operations. Thus, it shares the same basic properties:
14 tim 1.1 * <ul>
15 dholmes 1.7 * <li>It is best suited for applications in which set sizes generally
16 tim 1.1 * stay small, read-only operations
17     * vastly outnumber mutative operations, and you need
18     * to prevent interference among threads during traversal.
19 dholmes 1.7 * <li>Mutative operations(add, set, remove, etc) are expensive
20 tim 1.1 * since they usually entail copying the entire underlying array.
21 dholmes 1.7 * <li>Iterators do not support the mutative remove operation
22     * <li>Traversal via iterators is very fast and cannot ever encounter
23 tim 1.1 * interference from other threads. Iterators rely on
24     * unchanging snapshots of the array at the time the iterators were
25     * constructed.
26     * </ul>
27     * <p>
28     * <b>Sample Usage.</b> Probably the main application
29     * of copy-on-write sets are classes that maintain
30     * sets of Handler objects
31     * that must be multicasted to upon an update command. This
32 tim 1.5 * is a classic case where you do not want to be holding a
33 tim 1.1 * lock while sending a message, and where traversals normally
34     * vastly overwhelm additions.
35     * <pre>
36 tim 1.6 * class Handler { void handle(); ... }
37 tim 1.1 *
38     * class X {
39 dl 1.13 * private final CopyOnWriteArraySet&lt;Handler&gt; handlers = new CopyOnWriteArraySet&lt;Handler&gt;();
40 tim 1.1 * public void addHandler(Handler h) { handlers.add(h); }
41     *
42     * private long internalState;
43     * private synchronized void changeState() { internalState = ...; }
44     *
45     * public void update() {
46     * changeState();
47     * Iterator it = handlers.iterator();
48     * while (it.hasNext())
49 dl 1.10 * it.next().handle();
50 tim 1.1 * }
51     * }
52 tim 1.6 * </pre>
53 tim 1.1 * @see CopyOnWriteArrayList
54 dl 1.14 *
55     * <p>This class is a member of the
56     * <a href="{@docRoot}/../guide/collections/index.html">
57     * Java Collections Framework</a>.
58     *
59 dl 1.4 * @since 1.5
60     * @author Doug Lea
61 dl 1.11 * @param <E> the type of elements held in this collection
62 dl 1.4 */
63 tim 1.1 public class CopyOnWriteArraySet<E> extends AbstractSet<E>
64     implements Cloneable, java.io.Serializable {
65 dl 1.8 private static final long serialVersionUID = 5457747651344034263L;
66 tim 1.1
67     private final CopyOnWriteArrayList<E> al;
68    
69     /**
70 dl 1.15 * Creates an empty set.
71 tim 1.1 */
72     public CopyOnWriteArraySet() {
73     al = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<E>();
74     }
75    
76     /**
77 dl 1.15 * Creates a set containing all of the elements of the specified
78 tim 1.1 * Collection.
79 dl 1.4 * @param c the collection
80 tim 1.1 */
81 tim 1.12 public CopyOnWriteArraySet(Collection<? extends E> c) {
82 tim 1.1 al = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<E>();
83     al.addAllAbsent(c);
84     }
85    
86    
87     public int size() { return al.size(); }
88     public boolean isEmpty() { return al.isEmpty(); }
89     public boolean contains(Object o) { return al.contains(o); }
90     public Object[] toArray() { return al.toArray(); }
91     public <T> T[] toArray(T[] a) { return al.toArray(a); }
92     public void clear() { al.clear(); }
93     public Iterator<E> iterator() { return al.iterator(); }
94     public boolean remove(Object o) { return al.remove(o); }
95     public boolean add(E o) { return al.addIfAbsent(o); }
96 tim 1.5 public boolean containsAll(Collection<?> c) { return al.containsAll(c); }
97     public boolean addAll(Collection<? extends E> c) { return al.addAllAbsent(c) > 0; }
98     public boolean removeAll(Collection<?> c) { return al.removeAll(c); }
99     public boolean retainAll(Collection<?> c) { return al.retainAll(c); }
100 tim 1.1
101     }