[doc]Small modification on the WeakHashMap doc
Charles Lee
littlee at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 3 06:52:21 UTC 2012
Hi guys,
In the Implementation notes of WeakHashMap[1], says:
/One way to deal with this is to wrap values themselves within
WeakReferences before inserting, as in: m.put(key, new
WeakReference(value)), and then unwrapping upon each get./
However, it is not concise and a little misleading. Because the value in
the WeakReference can be GC'd if there are no strong reference to it.
This behaviour surprises some customers.
How about add a statement like [2]:
/However, as the use of WeakReference in this manner will not prevent
value objects from being GC'd, this approach is only useful when entries
in the map are not relied upon for keeping the underlying value objects
"live"./
[1]: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/WeakHashMap.html
[2]: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~littlee/7166055/webrev.00/
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elittlee/7166055/webrev.00/>
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Yours Charles
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