Java.lang.ThreadLocal.remove() Method

Description

The java.lang.ThreadLocal.remove() method removes the current thread's value for this thread-local variable.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.ThreadLocal.remove() method

public void remove()

Parameters

• NA

Return Value

This method does not return any value.

Exception

• NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.ThreadLocal.remove() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.*;

public class ThreadLocalDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

     ThreadLocal<Integer> tlocal = new ThreadLocal<Integer>();  

     /* sets the current thread's copy of this thread-local variable
     to the specified value. */

     tlocal.set(50);
     // returns the current thread's value of this thread-local
     System.out.println("value = " + tlocal.get());
 
     // removes the current thread's value 
     tlocal.remove();
     // returns the current thread's value of this thread-local
     System.out.println("value = " + tlocal.get());
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

value = 50
value = null