/*
* Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
* Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at
* http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
*/
package java.util.concurrent.atomic;
/**
* An object reference that may be updated atomically. See the {@link
* java.util.concurrent.atomic} package specification for description
* of the properties of atomic variables.
* @since 1.5
* @author Doug Lea
* @param <V> The type of object referred to by this reference
*/
public class AtomicReference<V> implements java.io.Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -1848883965231344442L;
private volatile V value;
/**
* Creates a new AtomicReference with the given initial value.
*
* @param initialValue the initial value
*/
public AtomicReference(V initialValue) {
value = initialValue;
}
/**
* Creates a new AtomicReference with null initial value.
*/
public AtomicReference() {
}
/**
* Gets the current value.
*
* @return the current value
*/
public final V get() {
return value;
}
/**
* Sets to the given value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
*/
public final void set(V newValue) {
value = newValue;
}
/**
* Eventually sets to the given value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
* @since 1.6
*/
public final void lazySet(V newValue) {
value = newValue;
}
/**
* Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
* if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
* @param expect the expected value
* @param update the new value
* @return true if successful. False return indicates that
* the actual value was not equal to the expected value.
*/
public final native boolean compareAndSet(V expect, V update) /*-[
return JreCompareAndSwapVolatileStrongId(&self->value_, expect, update);
]-*/;
/**
* Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
* if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
*
* <p><a href="package-summary.html#weakCompareAndSet">May fail
* spuriously and does not provide ordering guarantees</a>, so is
* only rarely an appropriate alternative to {@code compareAndSet}.
*
* @param expect the expected value
* @param update the new value
* @return true if successful
*/
public final native boolean weakCompareAndSet(V expect, V update) /*-[
return JreCompareAndSwapVolatileStrongId(&self->value_, expect, update);
]-*/;
/**
* Atomically sets to the given value and returns the old value.
*
* @param newValue the new value
* @return the previous value
*/
public final native V getAndSet(V newValue) /*-[
return JreExchangeVolatileStrongId(&self->value_, newValue);
]-*/;
/**
* Returns the String representation of the current value.
* @return the String representation of the current value
*/
public String toString() {
return String.valueOf(get());
}
}