Are nested method calls of AtomicInteger also atomic in java

Question

Would this operation be atomic or is there a chance of data race in between?

atomicInteger.set(-atomicInteger.get());

If there is a data race, how to negate an AtomicInteger atomically?

Answer 1

No you need to synchronize to lock the instance I guess.

AtomicInteger has lots of methods to getAndSet but nothing to do inverse...

Apparently this was asked before on SO Does AtomicBoolean not have a negate() method? The solution on that page is interesting.