I am writing a tiny application (something a bit bigger than "HelloWorld"). The task is to create a single producer and several consumers. The producer generates integeres and puts them in a dynamic stack (which is my monitor object), and consumers try to get those integers from stack. I do know how to create 1 producer + 1 consumer using a flag and a while with wait() inside. But how to do the same with multiple consumers.
Please have a look at my code:
public interface StackQueueIF {
void push(int value);
int pop();
}
public class DynamicStack implements StackQueueIF{
private volatile int stck[];
private volatile int tos;
boolean valueSet = false;
public DynamicStack(int size) {
stck = new int[size];
tos = -1;
}
@Override
public synchronized void push(int item) {
while(valueSet){
try {
wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (tos == stck.length-1) {
System.out.println("---------STACK HAS BEEN DOUBLED--------");
int temp[] = new int[stck.length * 2];
for (int i = 0; i < stck.length; i++) temp[i] = stck[i];
stck = temp;
stck[++tos] = item;
}else
stck[++tos] = item;
valueSet = true;
notifyAll();
}
@Override
public synchronized int pop() {
while(!valueSet){
try {
wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
valueSet = false;
notifyAll();
return stck[tos--];
}
}
class Producer implements Runnable{
StackQueueIF queue;
String producerName;
private static int counter = 0;
public Producer(StackQueueIF queue, String name) {
this.queue = queue;
this.producerName = name;
new Thread(this,producerName).start();
}
@Override
public void run() {
while(true){
System.out.println(this.producerName + " puts " + (++counter)
+ " into stack");
this.queue.push(counter);
try {
Thread.sleep(500);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.err.println(producerName + " interrupted");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
class Consumer implements Runnable{
StackQueueIF queue;
String consumerName;
public Consumer(StackQueueIF queue, String consumerName) {
this.queue = queue;
this.consumerName = consumerName;
new Thread(this, this.consumerName).start();
}
@Override
public void run() {
while(true){
System.out.println(this.consumerName + " gets " + queue.pop() + " from stack");
try {
Thread.sleep(500);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.err.println(consumerName + "interrupted");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
public class QueueTester {
public static void main(String[] args) {
StackQueueIF queue = new DynamicStack(10);
new Producer(queue,"Producer №1");
new Consumer(queue,"Consumer №1");
new Consumer(queue,"Consumer №2");
}
}
This is how I would write the Stack
public interface IntStack {
void push(int value);
int pop() throws InterruptedException;
}
public class DynamicStack implements IntStack {
private int size = 0, stack[];
public DynamicStack() {
this(16);
}
public DynamicStack(int capacity) {
stack = new int[capacity];
}
@Override
public synchronized void push(int item) {
if (size + 1 == stack.length)
stack = Arrays.copyOf(stack, stack.length * 2);
stack[size++] = item;
notifyAll(); // notify() would also do.
}
@Override
public synchronized int pop() throws InterruptedException {
while (size == 0)
wait();
return stack[--size];
}
}