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Groovy - Thread Synchronization
Need of Thread Synchronization?
When we start two or more threads within a program, there may be a situation when multiple threads try to access the same resource and finally they can produce unforeseen result due to concurrency issues. For example, if multiple threads try to write within a same file then they may corrupt the data because one of the threads can override data or while one thread is opening the same file at the same time another thread might be closing the same file.
So there is a need to synchronize the action of multiple threads and make sure that only one thread can access the resource at a given point in time. This is implemented using a concept called monitors. Each object in Groovy is associated with a monitor, which a thread can lock or unlock. Only one thread at a time may hold a lock on a monitor.
Thread Synchronization in Groovy
Groovy programming language provides a very handy way of creating threads and synchronizing their task by using synchronized blocks. You keep shared resources within this block. Following is the general form of the synchronized statement −
Syntax
synchronized(objectidentifier) { // Access shared variables and other shared resources }
Here, the objectidentifier is a reference to an object whose lock associates with the monitor that the synchronized statement represents. Now we are going to see two examples, where we will print a counter using two different threads. When threads are not synchronized, they print counter value which is not in sequence, but when we print counter by putting inside synchronized() block, then it prints counter very much in sequence for both the threads.
Example - Multithreading without Thread Synchronization
Here is a simple example which may or may not print counter value in sequence and every time we run it, it produces a different result based on CPU availability to a thread.
Example.groovy
class Example { static void main(String[] args) { PrintDemo printDemo = new PrintDemo(); ThreadDemo thread1 = new ThreadDemo( "Thread - 1 ", printDemo ); ThreadDemo thread2 = new ThreadDemo( "Thread - 2 ", printDemo ); thread1.start(); thread2.start(); // wait for threads to end try { thread1.join(); thread2.join(); } catch ( Exception e) { println("Interrupted"); } } } class PrintDemo { void printCount() { try { for(int i = 5; i > 0; i--) { println("Counter --- " + i ); } } catch (Exception e) { println("Thread interrupted."); } } } class ThreadDemo extends Thread { private Thread t; private String threadName; PrintDemo printDemo; ThreadDemo( String threadName, PrintDemo printDemo) { this.threadName = threadName; this.printDemo = printDemo; } void run() { printDemo.printCount(); println("Thread " + threadName + " exiting."); } void start () { println("Starting " + threadName ); if (t == null) { t = new Thread (this, threadName); t.start (); } } }
This produces a different result every time you run this program −
Output
Starting Thread - 1 Starting Thread - 2 Counter --- 5 Counter --- 5 Counter --- 4 Counter --- 3 Counter --- 2 Counter --- 1 Counter --- 4 Counter --- 3 Counter --- 2 Thread Thread - 1 exiting. Counter --- 1 Thread Thread - 2 exiting.
Example - Multithreading with Thread Synchronization
Here is the same example which prints counter value in sequence and every time we run it, it produces the same result.
Example.groovy
class Example { static void main(String[] args) { PrintDemo printDemo = new PrintDemo(); ThreadDemo thread1 = new ThreadDemo( "Thread - 1 ", printDemo ); ThreadDemo thread2 = new ThreadDemo( "Thread - 2 ", printDemo ); thread1.start(); thread2.start(); // wait for threads to end try { thread1.join(); thread2.join(); } catch ( Exception e) { println("Interrupted"); } } } class PrintDemo { void printCount() { try { for(int i = 5; i > 0; i--) { println("Counter --- " + i ); } } catch (Exception e) { println("Thread interrupted."); } } } class ThreadDemo extends Thread { private Thread t; private String threadName; PrintDemo printDemo; ThreadDemo( String threadName, PrintDemo printDemo) { this.threadName = threadName; this.printDemo = printDemo; } void run() { synchronized(printDemo) { printDemo.printCount(); } println("Thread " + threadName + " exiting."); } void start () { println("Starting " + threadName ); if (t == null) { t = new Thread (this, threadName); t.start (); } } }
This produces the same result every time you run this program −
Output
Starting Thread - 1 Starting Thread - 2 Counter --- 5 Counter --- 4 Counter --- 3 Counter --- 2 Counter --- 1 Thread Thread - 1 exiting. Counter --- 5 Counter --- 4 Counter --- 3 Counter --- 2 Counter --- 1 Thread Thread - 2 exiting.