Synchronizing access to an inner object's methods?

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Published on 2012-06-30T14:58:17Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 15:16 UTC
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Suppose I have the following:

public class Foo {
    private ReadingList mReadingList = new ReadingList();

    public ReadingList getReadingList() {
        synchronized (mReadingList) {
            return mReadingList;
        }
    }
}

If I try modifying the ReadingList object in two threads, the synchronization above won't help me, right?:

// Thread 1
foo1.getReadingList().setName("aaa");

// Thread 2
foo2.getReadingList().setName("bbb");

do I have to wrap each method I want synchronized like so:

public class Foo {
    private ReadingList mReadingList = new ReadingList();

    public synchronized void setReadingListName(String name) {
        mReadingList.setName(name);
    }

    public synchronized void setReadingListAuthor(String author) {
        mReadingList.setAuthor(author);
    }

    ...

and so on for each method of ReadingList I want exposed and synched? I'd end up just writing wrapper methods for each method of ReadingList.

Thanks

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