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/* InheritableThreadLocal -- a ThreadLocal which inherits values across threads

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package java.lang;

/**

 * A ThreadLocal whose value is inherited by child Threads. The value of the

 * InheritableThreadLocal associated with the (parent) Thread is copied to

 * the new (child) Thread at the moment of creation.

 *

 * <p>It is possible to make the value associated with the child Thread a

 * function of the value that is associated with the parent Thread by

 * overriding the <code>childValue()</code> method. The utility of this class

 * is in transferring items like User ID or Transaction ID across threads

 * automatically.

 *

 * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org)

 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)

 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com)

 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)

 * @see ThreadLocal

 * @since 1.2

 * @status updated to 1.4

 */

public class InheritableThreadLocal<T> extends ThreadLocal<T>

{

  /**

   * Creates a new InheritableThreadLocal that has no values associated

   * with it yet.

   */

  public InheritableThreadLocal()

  {

  }

  /**

   * Determines the value associated with a newly created child Thread as a

   * function of the value associated with the currently executing (parent)

   * Thread. The default implementation just returns the parentValue.

   *

   * @param parentValue the value of this object in the parent thread at

   *        the moment of creation of the child

   * @return the initial value for the child thread

   */

  protected T childValue(T parentValue)

  {

    return parentValue;

  }

  /**

   * Generates the childValues of all <code>InheritableThreadLocal</code>s

   * that are in the heritage of the current Thread for the newly created

   * childThread. Should be called from the constructor Thread.

   *

   * @param childThread the newly created thread, to inherit from this thread

   * @see Thread#Thread(ThreadGroup, Runnable, String)

   */

  static void newChildThread(Thread childThread)

  {

    // The currentThread is the parent of the new thread.

    Thread parentThread = Thread.currentThread();

    childThread.locals.inherit(parentThread.locals);

  }

}