Java.lang.ThreadLocal.remove() Method

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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.

Live Demo

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

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