先了解一下ThreadLocal类提供的几个方法：
public T get() { }
public void set(T value) { }
public void remove() { }
protected T initialValue() { }
get()方法是用来获取ThreadLocal在当前线程中保存的变量副本，set()用来设置当前线程中变量的副本，remove()用来移除当前线程中变量的副本，initialValue()是一个protected方法，一般是用来在使用时进行重写的，它是一个延迟加载方法，下面会详细说明。
首先我们来看一下ThreadLocal类是如何为每个线程创建一个变量的副本的。
/**
* Returns the value in the current thread's copy of this
* thread-local variable. If the variable has no value for the
* current thread, it is first initialized to the value returned
* by an invocation of the {@link #initialValue} method.
*
* @return the current thread's value of this thread-local
*/
public T get() {
Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
ThreadLocalMap map = getMap(t);
if (map != null) {
ThreadLocalMap.Entry e = map.getEntry(this);
if (e != null) {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
T result = (T)e.value;
return result;
}
}
return setInitialValue();
}
ThreadLocal类的一个内部类，我们继续取看ThreadLocalMap的实现
static class ThreadLocalMap {
/**
* The entries in this hash map extend WeakReference, using
* its main ref field as the key (which is always a
* ThreadLocal object). Note that null keys (i.e. entry.get()
* == null) mean that the key is no longer referenced, so the
* entry can be expunged from table. Such entries are referred to
* as "stale entries" in the code that follows.
*/
static class Entry extends WeakReference<ThreadLocal<?>> {
/** The value associated with this ThreadLocal. */
Object value;
Entry(ThreadLocal<?> k, Object v) {
super(k);
value = v;
}
}
最常见的ThreadLocal使用场景为 用来解决 数据库连接、Session管理等。
private static ThreadLocal<Connection> connectionHolder = new ThreadLocal<Connection>() {
public Connection initialValue() {
return DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL);
}
};
public static Connection getConnection() {
return connectionHolder.get();
}
private static final ThreadLocal threadSession = new ThreadLocal();
public static Session getSession() throws InfrastructureException {
Session s = (Session) threadSession.get();
try {
if (s == null) {
s = getSessionFactory().openSession();
threadSession.set(s);
}
} catch (HibernateException ex) {
throw new InfrastructureException(ex);
}
return s;
}