/* __ *\ ** ________ ___ / / ___ Scala API ** ** / __/ __// _ | / / / _ | (c) 2003-2013, LAMP/EPFL ** ** __\ \/ /__/ __ |/ /__/ __ | http://scala-lang.org/ ** ** /____/\___/_/ |_/____/_/ | | ** ** |/ ** \* */ package scala /** This class provides a simple way to get unique objects for equal strings. * Since symbols are interned, they can be compared using reference equality. * Instances of `Symbol` can be created easily with Scala's built-in quote * mechanism. * * For instance, the [[http://scala-lang.org/#_top Scala]] term `'mysym` will * invoke the constructor of the `Symbol` class in the following way: * `Symbol("mysym")`. * * @author Martin Odersky, Iulian Dragos * @version 1.8 */ final class Symbol private (val name: String) extends Serializable { /** Converts this symbol to a string. */ override def toString(): String = "'" + name @throws(classOf[java.io.ObjectStreamException]) private def readResolve(): Any = Symbol.apply(name) override def hashCode = name.hashCode() override def equals(other: Any) = this eq other.asInstanceOf[AnyRef] } object Symbol extends UniquenessCache[String, Symbol] { override def apply(name: String): Symbol = super.apply(name) protected def valueFromKey(name: String): Symbol = new Symbol(name) protected def keyFromValue(sym: Symbol): Option[String] = Some(sym.name) } /** This is private so it won't appear in the library API, but * abstracted to offer some hope of reusability. */ private[scala] abstract class UniquenessCache[K, V >: Null] { import java.lang.ref.WeakReference import java.util.WeakHashMap import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock private val rwl = new ReentrantReadWriteLock() private val rlock = rwl.readLock private val wlock = rwl.writeLock private val map = new WeakHashMap[K, WeakReference[V]] protected def valueFromKey(k: K): V protected def keyFromValue(v: V): Option[K] def apply(name: K): V = { def cached(): V = { rlock.lock try { val reference = map get name if (reference == null) null else reference.get // will be null if we were gc-ed } finally rlock.unlock } def updateCache(): V = { wlock.lock try { val res = cached() if (res != null) res else { // If we don't remove the old String key from the map, we can // wind up with one String as the key and a different String as // as the name field in the Symbol, which can lead to surprising // GC behavior and duplicate Symbols. See SI-6706. map remove name val sym = valueFromKey(name) map.put(name, new WeakReference(sym)) sym } } finally wlock.unlock } val res = cached() if (res == null) updateCache() else res } def unapply(other: V): Option[K] = keyFromValue(other) }