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V6125. Calling the 'wait', 'notify', and 'notifyAll' methods outside of synchronized context will lead to 'IllegalMonitorStateException'.

Nov 19 2024

The analyzer has detected that the 'wait', 'notify', and 'notifyAll' methods may be called outside a synchronized context.

public void someMethod() {
    notify();
}

public void anotherMethod() throws InterruptedException {
    wait();
}

The 'wait', 'notify', and 'notifyAll' methods operate on the monitor of the object we need to synchronize on. Their call is correct only in the synchronized context, which occurs on the same object.

If the 'wait', 'notify', or 'notifyAll' methods are called in the non-synchronized context, or if the current thread doesn't own the monitor of the object an 'IllegalMonitorStateException' exception will be thrown.

The correct method usage in the 'synchronized' block:

private final Object lock = new Object();

public void someCorrectMethod() {
    synchronized (lock) {
        lock.notify();
    }
}

Since the synchronization occurs on the 'lock' object, the call to the 'notify' method is correct only for the 'lock' object.

The correct method usage in the 'synchronized' method:

public synchronized void anotherCorrectMethod() {
    notifyAll();
}

The following code snippet is equivalent to the previous example:

public void anotherCorrectMethod() {
    synchronized (this) {
        notifyAll();
    }
}

Thus, in this scenario, a call to the 'notifyAll' method is correct only for the 'this' object.

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