rspec/rules/S2445/java/rule.adoc

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Synchronizing on a class field synchronizes not on the field itself, but on the object assigned to it. So synchronizing on a non-``++final++`` field makes it possible for the field's value to change while a thread is in a block synchronized on the old value. That would allow a second thread, synchronized on the new value, to enter the block at the same time.
The story is very similar for synchronizing on parameters; two different threads running the method in parallel could pass two different object instances in to the method as parameters, completely undermining the synchronization.
== Noncompliant Code Example
[source,text]
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private String color = "red";
private void doSomething(){
synchronized(color) { // Noncompliant; lock is actually on object instance "red" referred to by the color variable
//...
color = "green"; // other threads now allowed into this block
// ...
}
synchronized(new Object()) { // Noncompliant this is a no-op.
// ...
}
}
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== Compliant Solution
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private String color = "red";
private final Object lockObj = new Object();
private void doSomething(){
synchronized(lockObj) {
//...
color = "green";
// ...
}
}
----
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