一、在研究join的用法之前,先明确两件事情。
1.join方法定义在Thread类中,则调用者必须是一个线程,
例如:
Thread t = new CustomThread();//这里一般是自定义的线程类
t.start();//线程起动
t.join();//此处会抛出InterruptedException异常
2.上面的两行代码也是在一个线程里面执行的。
以上出现了两个线程,一个是我们自定义的线程类,我们实现了run方法,做一些我们需要的工作;另外一个线程,生成我们自定义线程类的对象,然后执行
customThread.start();
customThread.join();
在这种情况下,两个线程的关系是一个线程由另外一个线程生成并起动,所以我们暂且认为第一个线程叫做“子线程”,另外一个线程叫做“主线程”。
二、为什么要用join()方法
主线程生成并起动了子线程,而子线程里要进行大量的耗时的运算(这里可以借鉴下线程的作用),当主线程处理完其他的事务后,需要用到子线程的处理结果,这个时候就要用到join();方法了。
三、join方法的作用
在网上看到有人说“将两个线程合并”。这样解释我觉得理解起来还更麻烦。不如就借鉴下API里的说法:
“等待该线程终止。”
解释一下,是主线程(我在“一”里已经命名过了)等待子线程的终止。也就是在子线程调用了join()方法后面的代码,只有等到子线程结束了才能执行。(Waits for this thread to die.)
四、用实例来理解
写一个简单的例子来看一下join()的用法,一共三个类:
1.CustomThread 类
2. CustomThread1类
3. JoinTestDemo 类,main方法所在的类。
代码1:
<span style="font-family:KaiTi_GB2312;font-size:14px;">package wxhx.csdn2;
/**
*
* @author bzwm
*
*/
class CustomThread1 extends Thread {
public CustomThread1() {
super("[CustomThread1] Thread");
};
public void run() {
String threadName = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(threadName + " start.");
try {
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
System.out.println(threadName + " loop at " + i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
System.out.println(threadName + " end.");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception from " + threadName + ".run");
}
}
}
class CustomThread extends Thread {
CustomThread1 t1;
public CustomThread(CustomThread1 t1) {
super("[CustomThread] Thread");
this.t1 = t1;
}
public void run() {
String threadName = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(threadName + " start.");
try {
t1.join();
System.out.println(threadName + " end.");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception from " + threadName + ".run");
}
}
}
public class JoinTestDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String threadName = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(threadName + " start.");
CustomThread1 t1 = new CustomThread1();
CustomThread t = new CustomThread(t1);
try {
t1.start();
Thread.sleep(2000);
t.start();
t.join();//在代碼2里,將此處注釋掉
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception from main");
}
System.out.println(threadName + " end!");
}
}</span>
打印结果:
main start.//main方法所在的线程起动,但没有马上结束,因为调用t.join();,所以要等到t结束了,此线程才能向下执行。
[CustomThread1] Thread start.//线程CustomThread1起动
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 0//线程CustomThread1执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 1//线程CustomThread1执行
[CustomThread] Thread start.//线程CustomThread起动,但没有马上结束,因为调用t1.join();,所以要等到t1结束了,此线程才能向下执行。
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 2//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 3//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 4//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread end. //线程CustomThread1结束了
[CustomThread] Thread end.// 线程CustomThread在t1.join();阻塞处起动,向下继续执行的结果
main end!//线程CustomThread结束,此线程在t.join();阻塞处起动,向下继续执行的结果。
修改一下代码,得到代码2:(这里只写出修改的部分)
<span style="font-family:KaiTi_GB2312;font-size:14px;">public class JoinTestDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String threadName = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(threadName + " start.");
CustomThread1 t1 = new CustomThread1();
CustomThread t = new CustomThread(t1);
try {
t1.start();
Thread.sleep(2000);
t.start();
// t.join();//在代碼2里,將此處注釋掉
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception from main");
}
System.out.println(threadName + " end!");
}
}</span>
打印结果:
main start. // main方法所在的线程起动,但没有马上结束,这里并不是因为join方法,而是因为Thread.sleep(2000);
[CustomThread1] Thread start. //线程CustomThread1起动
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 0//线程CustomThread1执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 1//线程CustomThread1执行
main end!// Thread.sleep(2000);结束,虽然在线程CustomThread执行了t1.join();,但这并不会影响到其他线程(这里main方法所在的线程)。
[CustomThread] Thread start. //线程CustomThread起动,但没有马上结束,因为调用t1.join();,所以要等到t1结束了,此线程才能向下执行。
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 2//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 3//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread loop at 4//线程CustomThread1继续执行
[CustomThread1] Thread end. //线程CustomThread1结束了
[CustomThread] Thread end. // 线程CustomThread在t1.join();阻塞处起动,向下继续执行的结果
五、从源码看join()方法
在CustomThread的run方法里,执行了t1.join();,进入看一下它的JDK源码:
<span style="font-family:KaiTi_GB2312;font-size:14px;"> /**
* Waits at most <code>millis</code> milliseconds for this thread to
* die. A timeout of <code>0</code> means to wait forever. //注意这句
*
* @param millis the time to wait in milliseconds.
* @exception InterruptedException if another thread has interrupted
* the current thread. The <i>interrupted status</i> of the
* current thread is cleared when this exception is thrown.
*/
public final synchronized void join(long millis) //参数millis为0.
throws InterruptedException {
long base = System.currentTimeMillis();
long now = 0;
if (millis < 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("timeout value is negative");
}
if (millis == 0) {//进入这个分支
while (isAlive()) {//判断本线程是否为活动的。这里的本线程就是t1.
wait(0);//阻塞
}
} else {
while (isAlive()) {
long delay = millis - now;
if (delay <= 0) {
break;
}
wait(delay);
now = System.currentTimeMillis() - base;
}
}
} </span>