Handler 消息屏障 Barrier

1.概念

Handler的Message种类分为3种：

1. 普通消息
2. 屏障消息
3. 异步消息

其中普通消息又称为同步消息，屏障消息又称为同步屏障。

我们通常使用的都是普通消息，而屏障消息就是在消息队列中插入一个屏障，在屏障之后的所有普通消息都会被挡着，不能被处理。不过异步消息却例外，屏障不会挡住异步消息，因此可以这样认为：屏障消息就是为了确保异步消息的优先级，设置了屏障后，只能处理其后的异步消息，同步消息会被挡住，除非撤销屏障。

特点： 屏障消息没有tartget

2.代码

屏障消息不能正常发送，如果要使用，要使用发射发送

    private int postSyncBarrier(long when) {
        // Enqueue a new sync barrier token.
        // We don't need to wake the queue because the purpose of a barrier is to stall it.
        synchronized (this) {
            final int token = mNextBarrierToken++;
            //创建msg 没有target
            final Message msg = Message.obtain();
            msg.markInUse();
            msg.when = when;
            msg.arg1 = token;

            Message prev = null;
            Message p = mMessages;
            if (when != 0) {
            	//遍历到最后一个msg
                while (p != null && p.when <= when) {
                    prev = p;
                    p = p.next;
                }
            }
            //插入屏障消息
            if (prev != null) { // invariant: p == prev.next
                msg.next = p;
                prev.next = msg;
            } else {
                msg.next = p;
                mMessages = msg;
            }
            return token;
        }
    }

3.工作原理

屏障消息时如何挡住当前任务发送的呢？

  Message next() {
        // Return here if the message loop has already quit and been disposed.
        // This can happen if the application tries to restart a looper after quit
        // which is not supported.
        final long ptr = mPtr;
        if (ptr == 0) {
            return null;
        }

        int pendingIdleHandlerCount = -1; // -1 only during first iteration
        int nextPollTimeoutMillis = 0;
        for (;;) {
            if (nextPollTimeoutMillis != 0) {
                Binder.flushPendingCommands();
            }
			//本地方法获取消息对象，没有消息就阻塞
            nativePollOnce(ptr, nextPollTimeoutMillis);

            synchronized (this) {
                // Try to retrieve the next message.  Return if found.
                final long now = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
                Message prevMsg = null;
                Message msg = mMessages;
               //注释1 
                if (msg != null && msg.target == null) {
                    // Stalled by a barrier.  Find the next asynchronous message in the queue.
                    do {
                        prevMsg = msg;
                        msg = msg.next;
                    } while (msg != null && !msg.isAsynchronous());
                }
                if (msg != null) {
                    if (now < msg.when) {
                        // Next message is not ready.  Set a timeout to wake up when it is ready.
                        nextPollTimeoutMillis = (int) Math.min(msg.when - now, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
                    } else {
                        // Got a message.
                        mBlocked = false;
                        if (prevMsg != null) {
                            prevMsg.next = msg.next;
                        } else {
                            mMessages = msg.next;
                        }
                        msg.next = null;
                        if (DEBUG) Log.v(TAG, "Returning message: " + msg);
                        msg.markInUse();
                        return msg;
                    }
                } else {
                    // No more messages.
                    nextPollTimeoutMillis = -1;
                }
 
            
            }
 
            // Reset the idle handler count to 0 so we do not run them again.
            pendingIdleHandlerCount = 0;

            // While calling an idle handler, a new message could have been delivered
            // so go back and look again for a pending message without waiting.
            nextPollTimeoutMillis = 0;
        }
    }

msg != null && msg.target == null 证明是屏障消息，会获取下一个异步消息进行处理。