Java example source code file (CFRetainedResource.java)

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The CFRetainedResource.java Java example source code

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package sun.lwawt.macosx;

/**
 * Safely holds and disposes of native AppKit resources, using the
 * correct AppKit threading and Objective-C GC semantics.
 */
public class CFRetainedResource {
    private static native void nativeCFRelease(final long ptr, final boolean disposeOnAppKitThread);

    private final boolean disposeOnAppKitThread;
    protected volatile long ptr;

    /**
     * @param ptr CFRetained native object pointer
     * @param disposeOnAppKitThread is the object needs to be CFReleased on the main thread
     */
    protected CFRetainedResource(final long ptr, final boolean disposeOnAppKitThread) {
        this.disposeOnAppKitThread = disposeOnAppKitThread;
        this.ptr = ptr;
    }

    /**
     * CFReleases previous resource and assigns new pre-retained resource.
     * @param ptr CFRetained native object pointer
     */
    protected void setPtr(final long ptr) {
        synchronized (this) {
            if (this.ptr != 0) dispose();
            this.ptr = ptr;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Manually CFReleases the native resource
     */
    protected void dispose() {
        long oldPtr = 0L;
        synchronized (this) {
            if (ptr == 0) return;
            oldPtr = ptr;
            ptr = 0;
        }

        nativeCFRelease(oldPtr, disposeOnAppKitThread); // perform outside of the synchronized block
    }

    @Override
    protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
        dispose();
    }
}