Can I query DOM Document with xpath expression from multiple threads safely?
- by Dan
I plan to use dom4j DOM Document as a static cache in an application where multiples threads can query the document.
Taking into the account that the document itself will never change, is it safe to query it from multiple threads?
I wrote the following code to test it, but I am not sure that it actually does prove that operation is safe?
package test.concurrent_dom;
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper;
import org.dom4j.Element;
import org.dom4j.Node;
/**
* Hello world!
*
*/
public class App extends Thread
{
private static final String xml =
"<Session>"
+ "<child1 attribute1=\"attribute1value\" attribute2=\"attribute2value\">"
+ "ChildText1</child1>"
+ "<child2 attribute1=\"attribute1value\" attribute2=\"attribute2value\">"
+ "ChildText2</child2>"
+ "<child3 attribute1=\"attribute1value\" attribute2=\"attribute2value\">"
+ "ChildText3</child3>"
+ "</Session>";
private static Document document;
private static Element root;
public static void main( String[] args ) throws DocumentException
{
document = DocumentHelper.parseText(xml);
root = document.getRootElement();
Thread t1 = new Thread(){
public void run(){
while(true){
try {
sleep(3);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Node n1 = root.selectSingleNode("/Session/child1");
if(!n1.getText().equals("ChildText1")){
System.out.println("WRONG!");
}
}
}
};
Thread t2 = new Thread(){
public void run(){
while(true){
try {
sleep(3);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Node n1 = root.selectSingleNode("/Session/child2");
if(!n1.getText().equals("ChildText2")){
System.out.println("WRONG!");
}
}
}
};
Thread t3 = new Thread(){
public void run(){
while(true){
try {
sleep(3);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Node n1 = root.selectSingleNode("/Session/child3");
if(!n1.getText().equals("ChildText3")){
System.out.println("WRONG!");
}
}
}
};
t1.start();
t2.start();
t3.start();
System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
}
}
